Stephen M. Coleman

Stephen Messiah Coleman (born April 11, 1956) is an American money manager. He founded and is the majority shareholder of Daedalus Capital, L.L.C. a Chicago, Illinois based firm. He has served as the Chief Investment Officer of Daedalus since he founded the firm in St. Louis, Missouri in 1994.

Early life
Coleman, the fourth of eight children of Margie Dean and Elvis Coleman, was born in the Meacham Park community of southwest St. Louis County. When he was seven years old the family moved to the nearby suburb of Rock Hill, Missouri where he attended elementary and high school in the Webster Groves School District. He graduated from Webster Groves High School in 1974.

Coleman received a Bachelors degree in Black Studies from Amherst College in 1978. Following graduation from Amherst College, he matriculated at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he earned an M.B.A. from Stanford in 1980.

Personal life
Coleman has been married to Judith Fagen Coleman, also of St. Louis, since 1983. They have one daughter, Stevie Lynn, who was born in 1989.

Early career
Coleman has been a professional investor for 33 years. His finance experience began on Wall Street in 1979 at Salomon Brothers. He worked as a retail broker with Drexel Burnham Lambert in St. Louis, MO from 1981-1985. He then became President of Roland International, a real estate syndicator in Miami, Florida in 1985. Coleman was President of S.M. Coleman and Company, a registered investment advisor from 1986-1989. He worked for one year at Shearson Lehman Hutton from 1989-1990. He was employed for four years by Prudential Securities as a portfolio manager from 1990-1994.

Civic Involvement
Civically, Mr. Coleman served on the Board of the Wesley House Association (WHA), as Treasurer from 2002 until 2004, and as President from 2005 until 2011. Since 1970, Mr. Coleman has served on over 30 corporate, civic and non-profit boards in St. Louis including: Missouri Athletic Club, KETC (public television), United Way of Greater St. Louis, Chicken Little Fund Group, Inc.