The Island Fortress Leadership Team

Terrence is a seasoned and experienced executive with over 30 years of experience in running healthcare and healthcare-related businesses at a senior level. Over the past 15 years, he has been extensively involved in international business consulting activities across a broad multiplicity of disciplines and industries. In 2022, Terrence with several partners founded Cirrus Global Enterprise Partners, a highly specialised boutique Merchant Bank in order to provide advisory services and to arrange finance mostly for large, complex infrastructure projects and enterprise financings.

 

Terrence is an alumnus of the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Business located in Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds significant experience in the research, development, and manufacturing of sophisticated healthcare technologies, having led several award-winning engineering teams. He has worked over the course of his career in senior executive positions for a variety of companies, such as large NYSE-listed multinational Mallinckrodt Medical, and has also owned and sold several healthcare companies, such as Trigate and Aquila Healthcare.

 

Terrence is highly adept at managing, directing and leading complex organisations where applied research, advanced technologies, sophisticated manufacturing processes, regulatory conformance, marketing, sales and finance converge in order to deliver successful commercial platforms within the context of highly demanding market verticals. His key attributes include: a proven capacity to run medical technology, pharmaceutical and other technology-rich businesses at an operational level - with overall P&L responsibility; an ability to provide strong strategic vision; a talent for enabling strategic development and initiation; the utilisation of good communication and customer relationship skills; and has a strong, yet flexible, leadership capability.

 

Terrence is an astute strategic integrator and implementer of advanced technologies and a skilled intermediary between the technical, commercial and financial components of businesses, particularly with regard to the professional staff involved, and implicitly understands the complex interplay between these various elements. With the establishment of Island Fortress Enterprise Partners, Terrence is well-suited and well equipped to lead the organisation as its CEO, and to help provide early-stage and start-up businesses with both the capital resources and the operational guidance that are always critical to these entities.

​David B. Stockard, Director and Founding Mr. Stockard is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in international and domestic business development concentrating primarily on the communications, energy, and natural resource sectors.

 

David has served as a director of several domestic and international corporations. Operationally, he brings exceptional strategic planning and negotiation skills to the key focal areas of project organization, structure, and execution with a particular emphasis on the power generation industry.

 

David has lived and worked in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Europe. He is also presently the Principal of Eastern Capital Partners LLC, an international consulting firm with core competencies that include energy, power generation and communications infrastructure development. Eastern Capital under David’s leadership has successfully served a broad array of clients including Harvard University, Bank of America, Bank Boston, Fleet Bank, Commonwealth Edison, Con Edison, MITRE Corporation, AT&T, and several other multi national corporations, and military contractors.

 

David, as a founder partner and director, brings his significant intellectual heft and his earned experience to Island Fortress for the benefit of its clients.