Before joining Microsoft, Steve spent a couple of years raising capital for technology investments, mergers and acquisitions and participated on the boards of numerous of early through late stage companies.

Prior to this he served as General Manager of the Lotus Messaging and Collaboration division of IBM Corporation, having previously held key executive positions in areas of business development, product strategy, engineering and sales.

Steve is a frequently requested keynote speaker at industry events, respected as a thought leader by the analyst and press community, and is actively involved in promoting entrepreneurship in further education, recently leading lectures at the Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School, the Graduate School of Design and chairing the European Business Plan of the Year Award 2010 held at Cranfield University.