Stuart is a well-seasoned member of our team. His early background of three decades in stockbroking saw him working on the former ASX trading floor and then in sophisticated dealing desk environments for a clutch of established and well-respected firms. This experience armed him well for a subsequent decade solely committed to private wealth management. Notably, Stuart has worked through three major financial market downturns — October 1987, the dotcom bubble crash in 2000, and the global financial crisis of 2008/09 —adroitly navigating a loyal client base through these challenging periods. Since co-founding Escala, he has maintained this primary focus on the needs of clients, seeing them th