Steve is a CFO at Conterra Networks. He has over 30 years of experience in accounting and financial management advisory. His experience includes working as a CFO for high-growth, rapidly changing organizations backed by private equity. He has worked in various industries, including telecommunications, logistics, and eCommerce. Steve specializes in restructuring, cost optimization, identifying and optimizing key value drivers, preparing for sale, improving financial reporting, leasing with investments banks, forecasting and budgeting, changing IT strategy, building finance teams and general financial management. Steve has been involved in over 100 M&A transactions and in raising circa $1BN of capital for growing businesses. He received an MBA in Finance from Pepperdine University and a BA in Accounting from Villanova University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and started his career as an auditor with Deloitte in New York City.