Job Title:
CEO, Co-Founder, & Managing Partner at Growthink, GT Securities, GT Investment Management
Expertise:
Business Plans, Business Consulting, Capital Raising, New Venture Development, Investment Banking, Regulatory Compliance
Years of Experience:
25+ years of experience in starting, building, advising and investing in high growth firms.
Formal Education:
Bachelor’s degree with Distinction and with Departmental Honors from Stanford University.
MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA
Quote:
“Innovation and entrepreneurship are the greatest forces for positive change in the world today. Growthink’s services and ideas make a meaningful contribution to the spread and success of both. This is good and important work.”
CliftonStrengths™:
Strategic, Activator, Learner, Intellection, Relator
Values:
Family, Freedom, Happiness, Health, Integrity
Biography:
For the past 25 years Jay Turo has worked and led with a daily and passionate commitment to the Growthink Family of Company’s Mission of helping executives and entrepreneurs grow their businesses, so they can create jobs, offer customers better products and services, realize personal satisfaction and wealth, and fund programs that make the world a better place.
His management consulting and investment banking work spans industries and market sectors, with company clients including Accelerant, Caine & Weiner, C8 Medisensors, Dakim, DCIP, Free Conference, Fresh Games, Green Medical, Innoflight, Integreon, L3D3, Mahar Tool, Margaritaville Apparel, M3 Medical, Mobeze, MyPublicInfo, Nolatek, Ometric, Pocketsonics, Park Group PlC, Precision Time, Raise Capital, Recoup IT, Research Scientists, Sandel Medical, Shimmick Construction, Skyplex Entertainment Group, Spring Medical, Storied Media, Sunglass Hut, Telverse, Thrombovision, XCOM Wireless, and Xorbent, among many others.
Jay has also advised a wide array of corporate clients seeking to inject entrepreneurship and innovation into their organizations, including Deutsche Bank, McKesson, Infospace, Samsung, Porsche, and Paramount Pictures.
Jay is deeply committed to a “whole person” advisory approach, mindset, and ethos – integrating strategic business counsel, wealth management, and values-based guidance to help clients align their professional success with personal fulfillment and purpose.
Jay has an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and earned a Bachelor’s degree with Distinction and with Departmental Honors from Stanford University.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons, and is an avid reader, writer, and golfer.