Stewart A. Satter is CEO of Consumer Testing Laboratories and its affiliated companies, a group of independent, international recognized product testing laboratories. After graduating from with an MBA from NYU Stern, Mr. Satter joined the family business (founded by his late father, Herbert Satter), and moved overseas to establish the Companies’ Hong Kong & Taiwan laboratories where he lived for 4 years. Upon his return in 1986, Mr. Satter became the Company’s President, purchasing the Company from his family in 1988. Since this time, the Company has grown from 40 employees to almost 1000 worldwide and now operates laboratories in the USA, Canada, Hong Kong and China. Mr. Satter was keenly interested in Entrepreneurship from a very early age, starting his first business at the age of 14.

In 2004, Mr. Satter generously donated seed money for the launch of the Stewart Satter Program in Social Entrepreneurship at NYU Stern. The Program is designed to educate Stern students of the value in pursuing businesses that are both profitable and socially responsible. Mr. Satter also helped found the Social Entrepreneurship Track within Stern’s very popular Maximum Business Exposure Business Plan Competition held annually each spring. Managed by the Berkley Center, the Social Track encourages new ventures that pursue the “double bottom line” of sustainability and social impact and awards prize money totaling $100,000 annually.

Mr. Satter is a member of the NYU Stern Board of Overseers, and a 2005 recipient of the NYU Stern Nichols Award, in recognition of his integrity, enterprise and service to the community. In addition to his MBA from Stern, Mr. Satter holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is married to his high school sweetheart and has two children.