Steven is a start-up founder with expertise starting, funding, scaling and selling companies. He has spent the past fifteen years building online communities and developing global startup ecosystems. He currently works as the principal consultant in a firm connecting constituents from international markets to global Innovation Hubs. He practices an open innovation approach to digital transformation based upon connecting: corporations, startups, VC’s, Government agencies, Universities to the modern customer. He's a Brit who went to law school in the UK and US (before opening a Kite shop) and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 25 years.