Steve is Critical Process Systems Group's VP of Business Development for the Life Science Market Sector. Steve brings to CPS Clients a highly diverse professional background having spent the past three decades researching, designing, constructing, managing, and promoting advanced technologies and the facilities in which they are employed. Over this time he has worn many hats (supplier, owner, trusted consultant and business partner) serving multiple industries -- semiconductor, nanotech, biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, renewable energy and high performance data centers. Highlights of his career include serving as a 2-year corporate assignee for the start-up of SEMATECH (a US Consortium to re-establish US Semiconductor Industry preeminence), recipient of 1 patent, author of 21 technical papers, and an SRC industry mentor to Clarkson University, the University of Arizona, and the US National Science Foundation.

As a Business Development professional, Steve has led the US BD Organizations of some of the world’s most notable High-Tech Design & Construction firms: (1) SNC-Lavalin’s Pharma-Agro-Biotech US Director of Business Development., (2) M+W Group US Director of Business Development, and (3) Kinetics US Director of Business Development, Engineering and Technology.

Steve holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo.