Please join us in honoring Steve Smith for his contributions to bringing excellent educational options to historically underserved students. Please help us celebrate him by purchasing tickets here or donating here in his honor.

April 6, 2023 – 6 pm at the Chateau Grande Hotel in East Brunswick

Steve Smith is Head of Seaport Global Asset Management and was co-founder of The Seaport Group.

Before Seaport, Steve was a Senior Salesperson at Amroc Securities where he generated a solid supply of sales and trading ideas and proactively expanded the depth and number of client relationships. Previously, he helped found distressed debt broker-dealer Libra Investments, which later became U.S. Bancorp Libra, and opened and managed their New York City office. Before Libra, Steve was a Salesperson and Vice President at Jefferies Group in New York and began his career as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch. Steve graduated with a BS in Finance from Indiana University. He has been a board member for Inner City Education Foundation since 1994. Steve is the co-founder of ICEF Public Schools (the first CMO in Los Angeles) and the co-founder of College Achieve Public Schools (CAPS) in New Jersey and serves on the board.

On April 2nd 2013, College Achieve Public Schools was founded.  To mark our 10th Anniversary, we are having a fundraising event on April 6th at The Chateau Grande in East Brunswick.  All proceeds will go to support CAPS’ Summer Of A Lifetime (SOAL) programs where our students attend two-week summer programs at elite colleges and universities each summer at Oxford, University of Paris, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Colby, Georgetown, and our partner program at Princeton University SOAL U.