Our Team

Steve is a proven executive-level leader, investor relations executive and business consultant, with a demonstrated track record of driving sales growth, operational process improvement and identifying, planning, translating, and driving business goals into gains that help increase profitability and investor returns.

A self-motivated and highly active contributor in the information technology industry with 25+ years of experience in sales management, operations, marketing, business development, organizational management, administration and investor relations, Steve has managed teams at many startups, mid-market and Fortune 1000 firms. 

A highly trusted advisor that has provided strategic guidance to leadership teams and investment organizations, Steve has an outstanding reputation for executing against high-performance requirements through challenging economic and investment climates.

Throughout his career, Steve has accentuated a consistently proven ability to define, organize, and execute day-to-day operations within budgetary and time constraints. A dynamic manager who is capable of leading teams to produce outstanding results, Steve has taken pride in coaching and mentoring startup companies and individuals to perform at optimal levels across a number of business functions and geographies.

Steve has not only created highly successful business and technology consulting organizations from the ground-up, such as Iron Dome LLC of Tampa, FL, but has also served on senior and executive leadership teams from startup to Fortune 1000 companies.

Aside from providing his counsel and leadership in the business world, Steve takes great pride in his philanthropic efforts to help many civic organizations advance their cultural and development initiatives. Steve is a Board of Trustee member of the Congregation Schaarai Zedek of Tampa, FL, is an Executive Board Member for Schaarai Zedek Brotherhood Organization of Tampa, FL, is a Leadership Council Member for the Florida Holocaust Museum of St. Petersburg, FL, is on the AIPAC Leadership Committee and is a Board Member and Partner of Emergence Technologies from Baltimore, MD.

Michael has more than twenty-seven years’ experience in corporate communications and public relations including business strategy and planning, and the development and execution of marketing, media relations (B2B/B2C) and thought leadership programs. His sector expertise covers technology, financial and professional services, communications, retail and industrial.

He has managed and conducted corporate and public relations activities on behalf of clients, counseling C-level executives as well as sales, marketing and communications teams at multiple public and private entities in all matters of external and internal communications. Work for these clients includes hands-on strategy and message development, business-to-business and business-to- consumer marketing and media relations as well as supported crisis and issues management. His focus has always been on helping clients utilize communications to drive a business outcome – supporting sales and marketing, driving brand reputation and goodwill while maintaining communications with all relevant stakeholders and constituencies. Some of Michael’s past client experience includes serving as spokesperson and supporting consumer product/services introductions (CA Technologies, Cablevision Systems and Integral Systems); building reputation and exposure to customers on behalf of the brand and its executives (Office Depot, Seattle’s Best Coffee, owned by Starbucks, and TD Ameritrade); investor relations (Sears Holdings, First Marblehead and Integral Systems), and crisis and issues response (Ticketmaster, Evenflo and Expedia). As a Corporate Communications consultant, Michael has advised and supported clients at global and independent boutique communications and financial advisory firms including Amendola Communications, Cohn & Wolfe, GW Communications, Levick and Roccus Partners.

His career includes holding various account management positions at leading public and corporate communications firms including Zeno Group, The Dilenschneider Group, Weber Shandwick Worldwide, and Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, one of the largest independent investor relations consultancies in the United States. In addition, he was co-founder and Managing Director of CPR Financial Communications, LLC., a corporate communications consulting boutique catering to technology and healthcare entities. Weber Shandwick, a unit of The Inter-Public Group of Companies, Inc. acquired CPR Financial Communications in September 2000.

Michael is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and holds a B.B.A in Marketing from the University of Miami, in Miami, Florida.