As COO of Narrative I/O, the world’s first “Data Commerce Platform,” Steven hired and developed the current executive team enabling him to become a fractional COO and realize his ambition to start Anchor Consulting.
Prior, Steven was COO at Thrive Global, a venture capital backed health tech company focused on mental health and wellness of corporate employees.
As President of Dataminr, the AI powered event detection and real-time alerting platform Steven was responsible for and oversaw exponential commercial growth. For all of these earlier stage, growth-oriented technology businesses, Steven successfully established operational and go-to-market scale driving significant revenue expansion, managing high paced team-growth and entering new markets.
Prior to Dataminr, Steven was responsible for managing the Reuters News Agency and Content Solutions Business globally reporting to Reuters CEO. Under his leadership, the business saw three consecutive years of revenue growth achieved through the launch of dozens of innovative media products, many of which targeted new opportunities in digital publishing. He also successfully developed and executed a strategy to expand the business to new customer segments while diversifying revenue streams.
Prior to Reuters, Steven was Wenner Media’s first Chief Digital Officer overseeing the digital businesses for the company’s brands: Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men’s Journal. During his tenure at Wenner Media, Steven successfully reinvented and redesigned Us Weekly’s digital platforms and achieved significant growth both in audience and advertising revenue. He also spearheaded the transformation of RollingStone.com with a major site redesign and digital archive subscription product. Across the portfolio of Wenner properties, he led the establishment of large brand communities across social media platforms.
Earlier career achievements include running business development for Multex.com and overseeing its successful sale to Reuters as well as managing all digital assets for Reader’s Digest. He also worked for several years in brand, trademark and patent licensing after practicing law for several years immediately after his graduation from law school.
Steven splits his time between Manhattan's Upper West Side and Salisbury, CT.