Stuart W. Porter
1937 – 2010
USAF
Stuart Williams Porter was born in Detroit, Michigan, on January 11, 1937, to Stuart P. and Bernice (Williams) Porter.
He married Myrna Denham and had two sons.
He was a 1960 graduate of University of Michigan with degrees in mathematics and engineering, and received his M.B.A. from University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business in 1967. During this period, he also served in the U.S. Air National Guard, which was activated and deployed to France for the Berlin crisis.
Porter briefly taught accounting and statistics as a faculty member of UIC. Then, he joined the Chicago investment bank A.G. Becker. Eight years later, he joined the investment firm of Weiss, Peck & Greer, where he became Managing Partner of the Chicago office and CEO of the Quantitative Equity Division. After a brief retirement, he co-founded SPC Capital, a private equity firm.
After his own diagnosis of terminal prostate cancer, Porter made it his life's purpose to help those who had been stricken by prostate cancer through friendship, philanthropy and board service at Wellness Place in Palatine, and through his active support of the "Us TOO" International Prostate Cancer Education and Support Network.
Stuart Porter died in Barrington on May 25, 2010, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
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