Steve has more than four decades of financial and accounting experience serving a variety of commercial organizations. Steve began his career in public accounting as an auditor with Ernst & Young for nearly ten years. Steve then transitioned to industry ultimately serving as the CFO of three different companies over the course of his career. These companies in various manufacturing and service industries included privately owned, private equity ownership, which concluded by the successful sale of this company, and a publicly traded company. The companies ranged in size from $250 million to $5 billion of revenues.

During his career, Steve also served as the member of the Board of Directors of another publicly traded company (Audit Committee chair and Compensation Committee member).

Steve received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois – Urbana and successfully completed the CPA exam in 1980.