Stuart is the owner of trap’t Escape Room Adventures in Stamford, CT and Panic Room in both Stamford and Norwalk, CT. He founded the business with his wife and three daughters. In early 2015, Stuart took his family to play their first Escape Room. Around 6 months and several rooms later, he put together a business plan for trap’t. In August, 2016, they opened their doors to the public and have had tremendous success. They currently have 8 escape rooms and over a dozen VR escape experiences open across 3 locations and are building another 3 escape rooms over the next 12 months.

Prior to opening trap’t, Stuart had a successful career as a well-respected, results-oriented media/marketing/ecommerce executive with proven success as CEO, CMO, EVP Global Managing Partner, and Managing Director for Ogilvy & Mather, Mindshare, Universal McCann, Grey, Saatchi & Saatchi in addition to GSI Commerce, YouBeauty.com, OpenSky and Maxpoint Interactive. Over the course of his career, he managed multimillion-dollar accounts for Fortune 500 clients including Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Intel, Brown Forman, IBM, Cisco, Yahoo and SAP.

He is an almost 30-year media veteran with 25+ years in the interactive advertising community and ecommerce communities and was instrumental in pushing forward and championing many industry wide initiatives in the digital arena.