Hunter Carpenter is a principal at The Stephens Group, LLC and serves as the assistant to the co-chairman and chief executive officer. He focuses on cultivating strong relationships with management teams, and on optimizing capital structures to the unique needs and wants of individual companies and their shareholders and managers.

Prior to joining The Stephens Group, he was the executive assistant to Witt Stephens, Jr. at Stephens Group, Inc. where he supported Mr. Stephens across a broad range of principal investing activities, and monitored certain of the Stephens family’s portfolio investments. Previously, he worked in the Corporate Finance Department at Stephens Inc.

He has been involved as both a principal investor and advisor with the sourcing, analysis, negotiation and execution of leveraged buy-out, recapitalization and growth equity transactions. In addition, he has assisted the management teams of partner companies in evaluating add-on acquisitions and executing strategic objectives.

Mr. Carpenter currently serves as a director for Inform Technologies, Seminole Energy Services LLC, Spitzer Industries, Inc. and Acute Technological Services, Inc. He received a Bachelors of Accountancy, Masters of Accountancy and a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi. He is a member of the Arkansas Bar Association and has published articles in the fields of Corporate Finance and Constitutional Law.