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Steven Wise is a fourth generation resident of Stamford, CT where he settled with his wife, Lisa, and raised their three daughters, Sam, Tammy and Olivia. A 1982 alum of Westhill High School, Steve went on to graduate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
After spending almost 15 years in NYC in the commercial real estate industry, Steve decided to focus closer to home and in 2004 founded Steven Wise Associates, LLC, a real estate investment and development company based in Stamford concentrating more locally on various types of redevelopment projects, both commercial and residential. Soon after opening SWA, Steve affiliated with RoeCo, LLC a prominent real estate investment firm based in NY.
Along the way, Steve has had the privilege of serving on the boards of various community organizations including the American Cancer Society, State Street Debating Society, the Stamford Downtown Special Services District, New Neighborhoods, and the Ferguson Library. In addition to spending time with his family and friends, Steve enjoys playing and seeing live music, watching ice hockey and time in the outdoors.
Since 1946, the American Cancer Society has supported researchers at pivotal points in their career – to give them the support they need to keep great research going or to take their ideas from dream to reality. The American Cancer Society is proud to have helped more than 24,000 investigators make important advances in prevention, early detection, treatment, and care for those with cancer. In fact, 50 of those investigators have gone on to win the Nobel Prize, considered the highest accolade any scientist can receive. As the largest private not-for-profit, non-governmental funder of cancer research in the US, the American Cancer Society has played a role in many of the major cancer research breakthroughs of the last century.
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