Bio

Steve joined EdgeStone as a Partner in June 2002 and has over 30 years of transaction and corporate development experience. From 1999 until 2002, he was Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of MDC Corporation (now MDC Partners Inc.), a diversified business services corporation listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, with investments in specialty printing, marketing and communications, direct selling, card manufacturing and technology services. From 1982 to 1999, Steve worked at Tory’s, one of Canada’s leading transactional law firms, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and financing. He became a partner at Tory’s in 1990 and from 1995 to 1998 was Managing Partner of Tory’s European office based in London, England. Steve is Chairman of the Board of EZShield and Eurospec Manufacturing and serves on the Board of Directors of Porter Aviation Holdings and Aurigen Capital Limited. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Richards Packaging and served on the Board of Directors of Continental Alloys & Services, Trimaster Manufacturing and Farley Windows. He holds a JD from the University of Western Ontario and a MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.