Steve has over 20 years of business intelligence (BI) experience in all aspects of delivering successful BI implementations, including performance tuning, database design and application development. Steve is currently focused on expanding Claraview's presence in the retail, manufacturing, travel, telecommunications, media and entertainment industries.

Prior to joining Claraview, Steve was the sales leader for retail industry solutions with IBM’s Global Business Services organization in the Americas. Steve joined IBM’s retail industry team in 2004 and focused his efforts on building the retail business intelligence solution practice and delivered IBM’s first retail data warehouse logical model worldwide.

Steve started his career at Urban Decision Systems, an early provider of Geographic Information Systems for retail site location before joining Metaphor Computer Systems, a pioneer in Decision Support integrated solutions, as an applications consultant.  Metaphor was acquired by IBM and Steve started his own business intelligence consultancy in 1990, Endeavor Systems, which he sold in 1994 to Inacom to join Sage Communications, a Scottsdale, AZ based consultancy focused on industry data warehousing where he was VP of Sales and Marketing and Managing Director.  When Sage was sold to BSG/Alliance IT, Steve continued as a Managing Director before leaving in 1997 to join Sequent Computer Systems where he led their Americas CRM practice sales efforts.  Sequent was bought by IBM where Steve became head of retail industry marketing for the newly merged server organization and also worked in the emerging technology area of Grid/Cloud computing.

Steve holds a B.A. in Geography from UCLA and a M.A. in Planning from the University of Southern California.