Stan Turel is a part-time business consultant living in Oregon. He manages his own properties in three western states, is a member of the Board of Directors for the Deschutes County United Way, a founding stockholder and board member for Willamette Valley Vineyards, a publicly held corporation. He was a delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business and held positions on several state and local government committees.
As a teenager, Stan started his own aircraft cleaning and waxing company, serving 25 airports in Oregon and Washington. While in college, he began buying and managing rental properties. After the tragic murder of his father in 1974, Stan, then in his mid-twenties, became responsible for his father's estate and took over the role of CEO in his father's business, Columbia Turel.
Stan assisted in the seven-month murder investigation that led to the arrest and conviction of three individuals, one of whom was his father's business partner. Stan was eventually sued for $5 million in retaliation for that assistance by the convicted murderer, who spent his time in jail perfecting his talent as a jailhouse lawyer.
Stan operated the family business from 1974 to 2001. Prior to the sale of the company to Fiducial, Columbia had expanded to 15 offices with 26,000 annual clients, including 4,000 small business clients.