Steve Barrett

Mentor | CBASE Centre for Business and Social Entrepreneurship

  • Guelph ON

Steve has a proven track record for conceiving, funding, launching and commercializing early stage technology companies

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Proven track record for conceiving, funding, launching and commercializing early stage technology companies. Success across telecom, networking, wireless and biotech. High-energy leader who can inspire peak performance and deliver early heavy lifting: raising capital, building high performance teams, managing technical development, government approvals, creating strong vendor partnerships and new reference customer relationships.

• Raised over $10 million of early-stage capital - from government, Venture Capital, Angel, institutional and public market investors. Strong financial modeling, high-impact investor presentations, proven business plans. Articulate public speaker and writer.

• New concept evangelist - can transform technical concepts into investment-grade programs, high-value marketable products and successful commercialization.

• Solution sales closer - especially for early reference customers.

• Marketer - disciplined strategic planner with creative flair for message and positioning.

• General manager - Operations leader. Sales leader.

• Government negotiator and policy contributor.

• Turn-around skills - successfully restaged public company including recapitalization, development of new IP, product lines, markets, investor relations, corporate governance and capital markets.

• Team leader, mentor and coach - can recruit and inspire high performance teams and boards.

Industry Expertise

Telecommunications
VC and Private Equity
Biotechnology
Wireless

Areas of Expertise

Managing Technical Development
Government Approvals
Creating Strong Vendor Partnerships
Raising Capital
Building High Performance Teams

Education

University of Guelph

HAFA

B. Comm

1978

York University - Schulich School of Business

MBA

Marketing, Policy

1985

Languages

  • English
  • French