Mr. Cartner has served as a portfolio manager of Alerian's funds since April 2007.

Prior to joining Alerian as a partner, Stuart was formerly a Vice President in the Private Wealth Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. As a Private Wealth Advisor for nineteen years at Goldman Sachs, he was responsible for managing a $200 million portfolio of midstream Master Limited Partnerships for over a decade in Dallas, Texas, and has a deep understanding of both the individual companies and the macro fundamentals and investor psychology which drive the space. Mr. Cartner worked as a member of a broader investment team with $3 billion under management and has diverse investing and risk management experience across the public and private equity and derivatives spaces. He and Gabriel Hammond worked together from 2001-2004 while Mr. Hammond was in Equity Research at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Mr. Cartner has been an investor in various Alerian funds since the firm's inception. Prior to his time at Goldman, Mr. Cartner worked at Trammell Crow Company and General Electric.

Mr. Cartner received a BS in Finance and Management from Indiana University and an MBA in Finance and Marketing with Distinction from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.