Stu Zimmerman

Chief Inspiration Officer

Stuart Zimmerman entered the high profile investment community with a BS degree in Labor Relations from Cornell University and an MBA in Finance from Northeastern University, where he graduated first in his class and received The Wall Street Journal Award for Finance.

After a decade as a stock broker and options trader, Stu worked from 1991 to 1996 for a private investment advisor where he was second in command. During his tenure, assets increased two hundred fold.

In 1997, Stu founded his own investment firm, Zimco Advisors, a registered investment advisor through which he managed over $30 million in the stock market for high net worth individuals and small institutions. At the height of his personal and professional success, Stuart's wife was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He realized that true security and wealth is not measured in dollars. Moved by new priorities for his life, he liquidated his business to know joy and purpose beyond financial wealth.

In fall 2002, Stu founded Inner Securities, Inc., a private wealth coaching and training firm, based on the principles outlined in the landmark book he co-authored with Jared Rosen, Inner Security and Infinite Wealth: Merging Self Worth and Net Worth (Select Books, 2003). In 2005, he founded In Joy Media, Inc., a multi-media content provider created to bring more joy to people’s lives. He has been the host of the critically-acclaimed Inside Wealth radio show, interviewing remarkable and diverse guests such as Deepak Chopra, Tony LaRussa, George Zimmer and Ken Fisher.

Stu is Vice-Chairman of the Keiretsu Forum Charitable Foundation. He is also the founder/director of Share the Wealth Foundation, a charitable enterprise created to educate and empower people to greater self-esteem, personal responsibility and social entrepreneurship.

Stu lives with his family in Northern California.

Shelley Alger

Vice-President, Business Development

Shelley Alger is a serial entrepreneur and fine-art photographer. Shelley grew up in Sonoma and Marin counties, earning her B.A. from UCLA in Political Science with minors in Spanish and business, and her MBA from Dominican University in International business.

Shelley’s business background began in mortgage lending. After leaving that field, she explored her passion for international business working for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s import/export department and later became a representative of a technology transfer to the country of Uzbekistan.

After earning her MBA where she did her Masters’ thesis on the Internet in the mid-90s, she became director of research for Ally Capital, a boutique private investment bank who was very early to focus on “clean technologies”. In 1997, she saw an opportunity to work with a nascent Internet company and became one of the first employees and the director of business development for the email outsourcing company Critical Path. She named the company and helped grow it from 5 employees to over 1,400 when she left in 2000. She was responsible for early sales, strategic partnerships, the wireless strategy and growth into overseas markets.

After leaving Critical Path, Shelley consulted for start-up companies, became an active angel investor and member of the Keiretsu Forum, and pursued her passion for travel and wildlife photography, where she spent 5 years traveling the world to document vanishing wildlife and indigenous cultures. Her work has won her awards and has been shown in various magazines such as National Wildlife Magazine, Shutterbug and Ode magazines, as well as San Francisco Bay Area galleries.

Sandi Cupit

Executive Producer

Sandi Cupit is an award-winning television Producer, Director and Writer with experience in varied content, styles and formats. They include studio and filed production for entertainment and news magazine shows, music, drama, documentaries, corporate television, and talk shows.  She has produced programming for CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, MSNBC, The Discovery Channel, The Food Network, HGTV, and the Internet. She’s produced for Evening Magazine, Dr. Phil, Inside Edition, Sutter Health Network, and others.

Sandi began her career at KQED in San Francisco followed by a nine-year tenure at KPIX, CBS-5. In 1992 she started Sanjo Productions where she produced projects for PG&E, Golden State Warriors, Bechtel Corporation, Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco Department of Social Services and more. 

In 1996 she was recruited by Ziff-Davis Television, as Producer/Writer for The Site on MSNBC, with Soledad O’Brien.  She later created two successful technology shows for ZDTV, including the ground breaking client-based Digital Avenue.

Sandi was invited by OffRoad Capital, Inc. in 1999 to produce and write for their OffRoad Show Live webcast.  These shows generated $100M for emerging growth enterprises at this private equity investment firm.  At OffRoad Sandi introduced a production model that reduced their production cycle from nine to four weeks, generating significant savings while improving productivity.

Sandi is the recipient of two Emmy Awards, a Ziff-Davis Chairman’s Circle Award, The National Black Journalist Association Award, San Francisco State Broadcast Media Award, New York International Film Festival Finalist and honored by Women In Film and Television.

Serena D’Arcy-Fisher

Vice-President, Creative Relationships

Serena D’Arcy-Fisher’s extensive marketing, communications, and development work spans New Zealand, Southern Africa and the USA.  As Public Relations officer for the South African Department of Foreign Affairs, she promoted South Africa internationally to foreign dignitaries, including U.S. Senators, governors, European members of parliament, church leaders, industrialists, editors and journalists. She managed an education program, worked with the Public Affairs department, conducted development work for the University of Witwatersrand, and directed an outreach program to alumni in Australia and New Zealand. She has international experience in public relations, marketing, sales, media, and event management in a variety of disciplines, including education, complementary medicine, and human potential.

Serena joined Esalen Institute early in 2001, where she developed the multi-media marketing materials for the Capital campaign and ongoing Development program. She produced the highly successful annual November fundraising events involving celebrities and pioneers in the human potential movement. Her work helped raise millions of dollars for Esalen’s programs.

Captivated by In Joy Media’s vision and by the opportunity to support the development of human potential, Serena joined the team in early 2008.

Serena received her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was also a member of the South African women’s national volleyball team. She won a St. James Club (London) Award for Outstanding Young Businesswomen of the Year.