In 1977, Mr. Stewart purchased the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange building in downtown Los Angeles and created the first trust deed participation (fractional ownership) on the building to raise money for its' redevelopment. Early in his career, he got involved in the development and restoration of residential properties and served as General Partner/President of Stewart-Thomas, Inc. which purchased, developed, and operated several resorts and country clubs. Mr. Stewart created a reciprocal relationship agreement between these resorts and two dozen other resorts and later, his “reciprocal rights to use” model grew into the billion-dollar timeshare industry. Shortly after, he established the first Membership Guarantee Program backed by US Government Bonds to protect membership purchases with added loyalty and benefits.

Currently, Mr. Stewart's passion involves taking past experience  and industry knowledge to lead the development of a nexgen technology platform to facilitate an open, cooperative, cause-centric business model that using loyalty rewards to stimulate local commerce, to help fund humanitarian causes and to connect and support local community infrastructures as they grow and transition to ecofriendly smart cities of the future. Mr. Stewart holds a Ph.D. in Adaptive Science Economics with an educational emphasis in Business and Economics.