Stuart Bryan has always been an entrepreneur at heart. Whether it was running several paper routes in his youth or creating I-M Technology to provide premier IT solutions for businesses across Southern New England, he knows the value of hard work and creating something from nothing. And this is truly what entrepreneurship is to Stuart an opportunity to rewrite the direction of your life and create a legacy that lives on after you’re gone.

When Stuart was a young boy, his parents moved from England to the United States. “Both my professional parents couldn’t get their degrees acknowledged here in the U.S. So, my dad, who was an engineer, had to become a machinist, and my mother, who was a nurse, was offered a CNA job but decided to stay home and raise us kids as opposed to dealing with bedpans. To change that, they’d have had to go back to college. And having just sold everything we had and moved to the U.S., it wasn’t feasible. As a result, we didn’t have much money,” explains Stuart.

You see, Stuart’s parents had an upbringing in England surrounded by the aftereffects of World War II and the resulting poverty, meaning they were always thrifty and didn’t buy something unless it was important for the family. So then, how was Stuart supposed to acquire the video games he loved so much? Well, this situation is what first sparked his entrepreneurial spirit.