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EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Key achievements:
Proven business builder with demonstrated ability to lead strategic change and transform companies
Leader with broad experience in general management, financial management, operations, research and development, sales and marketing.
Results-driven strategist who develops the vision and translates it into bottom line impact
At Allegiance, Steve directs transactions in both the corporate and mid-cap markets, focusing on business sales, mergers, acquisitions, re-capitalization and related services.
Steve's 25-year corporate career has spanned a broad range of executive roles in Fortune 500 and mid-sized corporations, both in the United States and overseas. Over the past decade, Steve has built and transformed two businesses in highly competitive market segments, enabling financial and strategic exits to investors.
His varied businesses successes include:
serving as chief executive officer of S2 Systems Inc. Steve transformed this provider of payment processing systems to banks, financial institutions and retailers, enabling a major strategic acquirer to purchase the company
leading Open Connect Systems into a dominant position as the No. 1 provider of web-based software. This resulted in key strategic investments and, ultimately a financial buy-out.
working in senior positions with Fujitsu/ICL and Hewlett Packard, both in the United States and Australia.
Steve is immediate past chairman of the AeA, and he has held several board positions with private and public companies. He earned a bachelor's degree with an MBA equivalency in business computer information systems from Hoffstra University in New York. | 