Mr. Royce, drawing on more than five decades of experience in the financial services industry, helps advise Stride Capital. In addition to this role as Special Advisor, Mr. Royce is Chairman and Portfolio Manager of Royce & Associates, LLP, the firm that he founded in 1972 after retiring as its CEO in 2015. Mr. Royce is a graduate of Brown University and received his MBA from Columbia University. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Frick Collection, the Bruce Museum, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and the Ocean Community United Theater.