Steve has been in the industry for over 20 years.
Initially designing hardware and programming in the medical electronics industry, then a stint at Cellnet (allegedly as a programmer, but rapidly moving into systems admin and network admin, designing and rolling out their wide area tcp/ip network – this was in the early ’90s).
After 5 years of trying to persuade Cellnet that the Internet was going to be big and being told that no-one would ever want the Internet at home let alone on their mobile phone Steve joined a small start-up called Demon Internet in 1994 and helped it grow to the largest consumer ISP. Demon was consumed by Scottish Telecom to become THUS. Steve had a variety of jobs at Demon/THUS ranging from Business Development, Product Management, Marketing, Development, helping with PR, Media relations and Regulatory.
The role before he left was Head of Product Futures which meant developing a 5 year product roadmap across the whole of THUS’ product portfolio. After leaving THUS Steve consulted for various companies and then joined Textic Ltd as Chief Strategy Officer again in a business development – product/technology role. Steve is also a director of UKEC Ltd which is the governing body for ENUM in the UK and CSO of DBVu Ltd a centralised database monitoring and performance analytics company (Google Analytics tm but with advice on how to fix issues before they become problems)..
Steve writes for various sites and has been quoted in trade press (as an independent industry expert) and has extensive knowledge of mobile/ISP/telco and wireless. Steve is also an early stage investor, usually in technology companies. Investments have been in tech companies including a new UK based mobile network (which was acquired), a US based crowd sourced image and printing company (sold to Cafe Press), another US start-up and a few UK software start-ups, including DBVu.
