As a partner at McKinsey & Company, Steve built out and leads the M&A Separations & IPO’s practice in the Americas and co-leads globally. He is a former NASA engineer, MBA  and law graduate with 35 years of corporate and consulting experience including 30+ years  providing integration, separation, JV, diligence, valuation and negotiations support to 300+ deals. Steve began doing large scale international M&A in 1996 for Pennzoil and Unocal,  ultimately leading a corporate development team before entering consulting in 2000. Steve’s  focus is advising senior executives across the full transaction cycle in addition to C-Level  strategy development, restructuring and operational transformation. 

As the son of a US Army Veteran Steve was raised with deep respect for the men and women  of our military. His passion for mentoring Veterans, however, was born out of an earlier role  building an operational M&A practice from scratch as national lead partner at a prior firm.  Rapidly growing to scale required doubling headcount in some years. Steve viewed hiring Veterans as a competitive advantage so aggressively recruited across all branches of  service. Many were entering the private sector for the first time post-MBA which provided  hands on experience helping translate skills gained during military service into being a strong  consultant. 

As Veterans within his team began to refer Steve to others outside of their network, his pool of mentees grew organically. This foundation of experience proved invaluable when Steve became involved with the ACP at McKinsey and began mentoring through a formal program. On a personal note, Steve and his wife, Marcia, reside near Houston and have two college-aged sons.