Hoyt Stastney

chairman of the board of directors
Chair of the legal, compliance and cybersecurity committee
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Hoyt Stastney is chair of the Legal, Compliance and Cybersecurity Committee of the Board of Directors of RueOne. Hoyt is currently the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Bronfman E.L. Rothschild, a wealth management firm, and is a member of its Executive Committee. Hoyt has built a prominent law career in financial services with a practice focused on securities, corporate finance, investment management, financial institutions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and general corporate law.

In his role for Bronfman E.L. Rothschild, Hoyt oversees all legal and compliance functions for the firm, and heads up strategic initiatives, including the firm's M&A activities. Hoyt previously spent more than 19 years as a partner in the Milwaukee office of the national law firm of Quarles & Brady, where his focus included securities, investment management, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and financial institutions. During his tenure, Hoyt served as the chair of Quarles & Brady's Investment Management Practice Group, serving broker-dealers, investment advisers, hedge funds, family offices, and private equity firms across the nation. Hoyt has extensive experience counselling boards of directors and executive officers at public and private companies regarding complex corporate governance and compliance matters and served for over five years as corporate secretary to an NYSE-listed public company. Hoyt is a frequent speaker and commentator on legal and compliance issues facing the investment management community and serves as a guest lecturer on securities laws to the University of Wisconsin Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic. Hoyt earned his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and his BS in Political Science from the University of North Dakota.