Steve serves as Managing Director of U.S. Bank and Head of Business Development in the Global Corporate Trust Services Division for Northern California and the State of Nevada, since June 2008.

His primary focus is to develop new business opportunities to serve as trustee for both Municipal and Corporate financings, as well as Escrow Agent and Paying Agent Services related to M&A transactions.

Overall, Steve has over 30 years’ experience in banking and the debt capital market industry, from a unique, global perspective throughout the US, Asia and Europe.

As a native New Yorker, Steve began his corporate trust career at Chemical Bank in 1991 and was recruited to join the International Finance Group of The Bank of New York in 1994.

In response to the explosive Emerging Markets growth at the time, Steve was selected to establish BNY’s corporate trust practice in Singapore, thus served clients throughout Asia-Pacific from 1997 thru 2001.

Following his success in Asia, Steve was appointed regional manager for BNY’s Global Finance Group in London, serving the UK, EMEA and Asia-Pacific markets from 2001 – 2004, after which he returned to the States to manage BNY’s Corporate Finance Group for the Midwestern Region, based in Chicago, from 2004 until early 2008.