Steve Smith
Steve has over 30 years’ experience as a technology and business consultant working since the late ’80s at Board level. Steve has worked across Europe and the USA leading technology businesses large and small.
Steve has led multi-million-pound fundraising campaigns for and on behalf of a range of diverse, primarily technology businesses – from large fibre management through to computer gaming but also life sciences, education services and manufacturing.
He championed the Digital Sector for the Liverpool City Region helping drive equity investment into high growth companies and acted on behalf of both the Liverpool Seed Fund and Merseyside Special Investment
Fund working closely with the Chief Executive and specialising in the digital and software firms within their portfolio.
Recently he has acted as Interim CEO and Chair for several technology firms including a significant spell with an international software firm.
Steve conceived, developed, and delivered the international pitching event format “Software City” and ran it in Silicon Valley, Boston, London, Helsinki, and Liverpool bringing a wide range of technology businesses to the UK and European investor community.
As well as a broad knowledge set and vast network, Steve has considerable experience in managing relationships at board level. Comfortable at Board and C-suite level Steve offers the Scaleup Board a wide range of experience in growth finance, sales and business development and international expansion.