Steve leads the Technology Group at Hercules with more than 16 years of operational and structured finance experience. He has led over $1.2 billion in capital investments at Hercules and has worked with breakout companies such as Box, Lightspeed, IronPlanet, MachineZone and Trulia. Steve has been involved with early stage startups with passionate founders and a great concept as well as billion dollar revenue businesses looking to finance their next big market. Prior to Hercules, Steve was a strategic member of Lightcross, a silicon photonics startup, where he led the product management team.

Before joining Lightcross, he was a principal at Comdisco Ventures.