BUSINESS LEADER, GENERAL COUNSEL and STARTUP FOUNDER
As a business and technology lawyer trained by GE Capital in its exacting and results-focused corporate environment, Steve knows how to help companies innovate and succeed. Five times, he’s helped build world-class startups, beginning with the Internet’s first digital auto auction platform. Steve anticipates challenges, helps stakeholders find creative solutions, and exceeds goals, all at the lowest possible cost.
HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADER BUILDING HIGH INTEGRITY CULTURES
Steve has applied his performance-based approach to the business-legal partnership and built teams on the global stage in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Chicago. In each case, Steve built a process-oriented infrastructure that integrates legal, compliance and business decision-making with an emphasis on efficiency, integrity and results.
JUDGMENT, EXPERTISE AND INTEGRITY
Steve’s colleagues describe him as: “Super smart;” “practical;” “trusted;” “passionate;” someone who “does things the right way” and “gets results every time.” With experience leading diverse, cross-generational legal teams in the consumer, financial services, startup, mobile tech/logistics and management consulting industries, Steve has successfully taken companies from launch through the most rigorous IPO, M&A and capital raising process - and points beyond.
AUTHOR and SPEAKER
A published author and frequent speaker on modern law department structure, diversity recruiting and career management, Steve’s thought leadership has been featured in the Association of Corporate Counsel’s "Docket," "Metropolitan Corporate Counsel" and "Directors & Boards" magazine.
SPECIALTIES
Steve's legal and regulatory expertise includes ’33 and ’34 Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, corporate governance, cyber security, broker-dealer, FINRA, JOBS Act, FCPA, COPPA, FACTA, AML, GLB, FDCPA, FCRA, ECPA and Dodd-Frank compliance. Steve is admitted to practice law in California, Illinois and Indiana.
