Built by People Who've Run an ESOP.
Stokastique is a boutique consultancy founded by former ESOP CEOs and CFOs. We bring actuarial rigor and operator experience to the challenges that matter most — repurchase obligation, financial leadership, governance, and long-term sustainability.
What We Do
Every engagement is custom. We listen first, then apply the right combination of financial expertise, actuarial modeling, and operational experience to your situation. As former CEOs and CFOs of a mature, 100% ESOP-owned company, we bring firsthand operator knowledge that most advisory firms simply don't have.
Every ESOP Has a Stage. We Know All of Them.
The challenges facing a newly created ESOP are entirely different from those facing a mature one. Our experience spans the full lifecycle — and our advice reflects that.
Creation
Ownership succession is the primary goal. Plan design decisions made now will shape everything that follows.
Early
High debt, minimal repurchase obligation, and a workforce embracing employee ownership culture for the first time.
Thriving
Debt paid off, free cash flow emerging — but the repurchase obligation is beginning to appear on the horizon.
Mature
Cash flow challenged by repurchase obligation. Proper planning is the difference between an ESOP that thrives and one that terminates.
Our Difference
We don't just advise. We've operated.
Most ESOP consultants have never run an ESOP. Stokastique was founded by former CEOs and CFOs of a mature, 100% ESOP-owned company. We applied actuarial techniques to fund the repurchase obligation, built an outside board of directors, crafted a corporate strategy that used our ESOP structure to acquire a dozen companies, and developed a management team that produced long-term organizational leaders. We exited with the ESOP intact, having created meaningful wealth for many employee-owners. That experience is the foundation of everything we do for clients.
Our History
Founded after a successful exit
Stokastique was established after we exited our ESOP, having created significant wealth for employee-owners along the way. We saw a clear gap in the market: most ESOP advisory firms are staffed by advisors who have never operated an ESOP from the inside. We returned to the marketplace specifically to fill that gap. Our goal is straightforward — help every ESOP we work with navigate its unique challenges and run indefinitely.
What does Stokastique mean?
Stokastique is a play on the mathematical concept of stochastic modeling. Most financial models are static — they produce a single deterministic answer. Stochastic models simulate thousands of scenarios, revealing the full range of possible outcomes and the probability of each.
We apply this philosophy across all of our work, because ESOP management is not a single-scenario problem. It never has been.
