Operator | Investor | Coach
Operator
CEO and co-founder of Charge Corp, 3x COO, and one of Lyft’s first General Managers.Steve is an entrepreneur and operating executive with experience building high performing teams and scaling and exiting high growth, category-defining companies. He was one of Lyft’s first General Managers growing the New York and Mid-Atlantic businesses to $2B+ in annual bookings and managing a team of 200+. Since leaving Lyft in 2019, Steve has founded and led companies focused on technology repair (acquired by Assurant, NYSE: AIZ), healthcare, and consumer health and wellness (acquired by Forme).Steve began his career serving in the US Navy as a Naval Flight Officer with tours in Iraq, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and The White House.
Investor
I invest $25k-$150k checks into early and mid-stage technology companies and frequently provide operational support and coaching to the executive teams.
Coach
I coach CEOs, executives, and venture investors to become better operators and more effective leaders. As a founder and operating executive, I understand the challenges my clients are facing and help them anticipate the challenges on the horizon.
I provide feedback, external perspective, and proven tools and frameworks to help my clients;
Improve their productivity, focus, and judgment
Build and lead high-performing teams
Simplify and scale
TESTIMONIALS
Navroop Mitter, Founder & CEO of ArmourText
As an investor, Steve is supportive, personable, inquisitive, direct, quick, and respectful. I can't express how supportive he is of founders nor how respectful he is of their time. He's an entrepreneur, a strategist, and a leader who understands the role he has to play to help his portfolio succeed.
Bryan Wish, Co-Founder & CEO of Arcbound
“Steve has taught me how to delegate, allowing me to focus on the growth of the business and our longer-term strategy, while still ensuring daily operations are running smoothly and I’m able to hold the executive team accountable.”
Ryan Soscia, Co-Founder & COO of GARD
“Steve’s insight, wisdom, guidance, experience, and understanding have helped me manage the many personalities, investors, and Board members that I am dealing with on a daily basis. As my performance coach, I often walk into our sessions in a fog and Steve is able to rewire my brain to bring a different level of thinking and clarity.”
Carson Morell, Co-Founder & COO of Arcbound
“The work Steve does is actionable. He has frameworks and tools he sends me after our sessions. I’m able to take a framework that he has shared, go apply it and see immediate results. He’s helped create an environment in which the other members of our leadership team feel comfortable reaching out to him directly to speak one-on-one on issues they're facing. He has helped everyone on our leadership team become a better leader and manager. There are many coaches out there but not many with the field experience Steve possesses.”
"Founding Partner a privately held real estate investment and development company with $8B under management"
“I brought Steve on as a fresh perspective on some shifts I was making in my life and managing the complexities of having a younger co-founder and other choices that I needed his wisdom of experience in. He has helped me with methodical things such as accountability, delegating, decision-making, managing complex working relationships, holding people accountable, and managing expectations. We work with vast portfolios so it's helpful to have someone I can relay information to and who can help me think of the best way to respond or how to move.”
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