About
Direct Selling Capital Advisors focuses on identifying and financing mid to small-market growth companies that are ready to develop into tomorrow’s market leaders. Our client’s draw immediate and unparalleled value from our substantial ties in the primary sectors served.
Our long-standing relationships and experience provides uncommon access, insight, and knowledge. Direct Selling Capital Advisors offers a comprehensive suite of capital planning, financing, and advisory solutions. The firm is committed to exceptional, idea-driven and approachable service.
Our team is committed, above all else, to satisfying the client’s strategic objectives in closing transactions. We successfully deliver highly customized merger and acquisition, capital attainment and partnering solutions to organizations like yours by targeting and capitalizing on unique and differentiating opportunities. Direct Selling Capital Advisors operates in an integrity-driven, relationship focused capacity in an effort to traverse complex financial challenges to achieve long-term objectives.
Leadership
The principals at Direct Selling Capital Advisors possess decades of incomparable expertise across core industries.
Combined with our deep, long-standing relationships, we are uniquely positioned to provide unparalleled value to our clients.
Stuart Johnson
Co-founder & Partner
Leveraging his extensive experience and contacts across our primary industry verticals, Mr. Johnson founded Direct Selling Capital Advisors in 2019.
Ryan Bright
Co-founder & Partner
Mr. Bright possesses nearly 20 years of experience as a financial and investment executive and co-founded Direct Selling Capital Advisors with
Mr. Johnson.
Preston Hund
Analyst
MELONY TREMENTOZZI
Business Development
Stuart Johnson
Co-founder & Partner
Leveraging his extensive experience and contacts across our primary industry verticals, Stuart Johnson founded Direct Selling Capital Advisors in 2019. Johnson has been involved in the direct selling industry for more than 30 years based on his ownership of Success Partners, an industry-leading marketing services firm.
Stuart Johnson and Success Partners are recognized, world-wide, as prominent experts and visionaries within the space. Each April, Success Partners hosts Success Partners University, a premier educational and networking event regularly attended by more than 500 direct selling executives. Johnson is also the owner and publisher of Direct Selling News, a leading industry publication.
Johnson is also a key player in both the personal development and publishing industries. In addition to Direct Selling News, Johnson is also the owner of Success Magazine, a 120-year-old industry-standard publication for readers immersed in business, entrepreneurship, finance, personal development, and innovation.
Throughout his career, Mr. Johnson has served as a key adviser to business owners and executives across Direct Selling Capital Advisors’s targeted industry verticals, including the sourcing of, and participation in, numerous M&A transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.
Ryan Bright
Co-founder & Partner
Ryan Bright possesses nearly 20 years of experience as a financial and investment executive and co-founded Direct Selling Capital Advisors with Stuart Johnson.
Prior to Direct Selling Capital Advisors, Bright served as the President and Managing Partner of Lucidus Capital, LLC, a boutique transaction advisory firm. Earlier in his career, as a Managing Director, Bright was responsible for the Dallas office of an international investor relations firm focused on representing companies listed on both the Nasdaq and New York stock exchanges.
Client companies ranged from $100 million to multi-billion dollar market capitalizations. From 2003 to 2007 Bright operated Fiducia Capital Management, LP, a registered investment advisory firm that he co-founded. Fiducia focused on managing portfolios of publicly traded equities for a number of private investment partnerships.
Bright began his career in finance sourcing private equity transactions for a large Dallas, Texas-based family office and also served as a key investment advisor to one of the largest private family foundations in the State of Texas.
