J. Stephen Castellano
J. Stephen Castellano founded Ascendere Associates LLC in 2009 to provide equity research, financial modeling, valuation, and business strategy consulting services.
His consulting clients range from FinTech, SaaS, and eCommerce startups to institutional investors and a top 3 management consulting firm.
As a startup consultant, Mr. Castellano has successfully helped a wide range of startups develop business plans, financial models, pricing strategies, competitive analysis, and valuations which have secured funding from angel and institutional investors, as well as having led to exit acquisitions.
Mr. Castellano has over 20 years of experience in equity research, financial modeling, management consulting, and startup consulting.
At PaineWebber, Warburg Dillon Read and Credit Lyonnais Securities he developed fundamental equity valuation models and conducted in-depth research on the steel and telecom services industries. At Boston Private Value Investors, he developed quantitative models for stock idea generation and also provided general fundamental equity research coverage.
Mr. Castellano received a MBA from the F. W. Olin School of Business at Babson College (2005) and a BA from Oberlin College (1993).
Please feel free to contact me via the contact form above or by email: steve at ascenderellc.com.
