BIOGRAPHY:

Steve brings a depth and breadth of financing and advisory experience across diverse industries. For more than 40 years, he has provided businesses and organizations with unique and creative solutions to financing and strategic challenges, completing more than 500 successful advisory and financing assignments for his clients. Steve has been active in the investment banking and merchant banking business since 1973, when he began his career at the Bank of Boston. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Director and Co-Head of the Corporate Finance Department at Rotan Mosle, Inc., a leading regional Houston-based investment banking firm that merged with Paine Webber in 1983.

In 1990, Steve founded Fieldstone Partners after having co-founded and led a successful leveraged buyout and structured finance firm for six years. Steve earned an A.B. with honors in Economics from Princeton University and an M.B.A. with honors in Finance from Harvard Business School. An avid tennis player and runner, Steve has successfully completed 17 marathons.

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• Buy-side merger and acquisition advisory services
• Recapitalizations, including complex structure considerations
• Managing the interaction of business, finance, accounting, tax, and leadership issues for growing companies
• Private equity transactions
• Project finance – ranging from offshore drilling rigs to power plants and satellite constellations