Speaker Profile
Steve was one of the founders of buy.at and was both COO and CEO at the business. During this time the foundations for buy.at’s continuing technical and commercial innovations were set and in 2006 the company’s success and growth was acknowledged when it was recognised as the UK’s largest fast-growing profitable technology company being placed 9th in the Techtrack 100.
During Steve’s time at buy.at there were two financing rounds, a seed round and then investment from DFJ Esprit in 2006, its purchase by AOL’s platform A in 2008, and also buy.at’s acquisition of Lightstate in 2007.
Steve’s career started as a scientific researcher at an international facility in the UK, followed by five years at KPMG from which he joined buy.at directly. He currently follows the technology start up scene and is interested as to where the sector’s next major innovations will develop.
