Primary Job Title Chief Operations Officer Primary Organization
Gluon
Location Livermore, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Stuart is a pioneer in the automotive parts industry. In 1975 he co-founded IMPAC and after 18 straight years, he played a significant role in its double-digit growth to become a multimillion-dollar distributor of import auto parts. In 1994 IMPAC received an unsolicited offer to be acquired Gulf States Toyota with the intent to merge IMPAC with
World Wide Trading, a previous acquisition of Gulf States, to form Worldpac, Inc. one of the most successful auto parts distributors in the world. Worldpac was subsequently acquired by Advance Auto Parts for in a multibillion-dollar buy out in 2013 and took Worldpac on the New York Stock Exchange.
