Partner, Equity Fund

Steve joined EdgeStone as a Partner in June 2002 and has over 25 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 Torys, one of Canada's leading transactional law firms, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and financing. He became a partner at Torys in 1990 and from 1995 to 1998 was Managing Partner of Torys' European office based in London, England.

Steve is Chairman of the Board of Custom Direct and serves on the Board of Directors of Porter Aviation Holdings, Trimaster Manufacturing and Eurospec Manufacturing. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Richards Packaging and served on the Board of Directors of Farley Windows. He holds a L.L.B from the University of Western Ontario and a M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Steve is a member of the Board of Directors of the Sunnybrook Foundation and the Canadian Opera Company.