Stephen W. Etter
Lecturer (Continuing) | Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES
Areas of Expertise (4)
Financial Analysis
Mezzanine Debt
Corporate Finance
Accounting and Auditing
About
Stephen "Steve" W. Etter, CPA, is a Founding Partner at Greyrock Capital Group LLC. Previously, he was a partner at the firm. He served as Interim CEO and President of Allen Technologies Inc. In the nine years before joining Greyrock in 1996, he held positions at General Electric Capital Corp., Barclays Bank PLC, and CitiCorp. as an executive focusing on senior and mezzanine debt. From 1983 to 1987, he was employed at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as an executive officer. He has been a finance lecturer at Berkeley Haas for 10 years and has been conducting the Corporate Finance and Financial Analysis courses since 2004. Etter serves as a director at Paragon Products LLC, MWA Intelligence Inc., Allen Technologies Inc., and Phillips Tile Company Inc. He serves as a Trustee of The University of California Berkeley Foundation. He has received the Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Undergraduate Program in 1996; the Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence as GSI Undergraduate Program; and the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award as GSI in 1979. Etter obtained his CPA license at PriceWaterhouse. He earned his BS and MBA degrees from Berkeley Haas.
Education (2)
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley: MBA
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley: BS
Links (1)
Honors & Awards (3)
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Undergraduate Program
1996
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence as GSI, Undergraduate Program
1988
Outstanding GSI Award
1989
Selected External Service & Affiliations (1)
- Founding Partner at Greyrock Capital Group, LLC
Media Appearances (2)
Women's sports stars are looking beyond playing time to build business empires
Yahoo! Sports online
2020-04-09
Star female athletes are branching into business, whether that’s through ownership, authorship, or investment. Stephen Etter, a professional faculty member who works closely with student athletes, references the skills that Cal coaches Teri McKeever (swimming) and Charmin Smith Lindsay Gottlieb (basketball) give their players. "These three coaches don't focus only on national championships. They focus on national championships, a degree from the institution so when your sporting life is done you have that degree, and developing women.”
For players like Raven Justin Forsett, business provides a safety net
Baltimore Sun online
2016-07-07
"Forsett said he began to consider his life after football during his senior year at Cal, where Steve Etter, an adjunct professor who teaches at the Haas Business School, became the player's first mentor..."
Teaching (1)
Corporate Finance and Financial Analysis
UGBA 131