steve sjostrom

private equity investor

About

Steve has worked as an IT independent consultant for 20 years on high profile projects, changing how businesses do business using the latest in technologies. Since 05, invested in 10 companies (mostly in IT industry) and 4 real estate projects. Goals are to continue to find new technology related investment opportunities, that fit a conservative / risk adverse investment to build up my current personal portfolio. Notable investment was in Fisker Automotive, HQ Irvine, CA, in 09 & 10. http://karma.fiskerautomotive.com/ Specialties: Internet, B2B & B2C, E-Commerce, Infrastructure, Security, Server Architecture, M&A, Technology Investing

Country

united states

City

orange county

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

e commerce, security, start ups, project management, management, mergers and acquisitions, mergers, investments, strategic planning, finance, strategy, b2b, strategic partnerships, executive management, entrepreneurship, budgets, saas, business strategy, program management, leadership, portfolio management, integration, cloud computing, venture capital, business planning, business analysis, business development, change management, vendor management, product management, corporate development

Experience

private equity investor

ts investors

senior project manager

honda of america mfg., inc.

2001-1 - 2003-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

it consultant

ibm

1991-1 - 1994-1 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Managed multiple IT deployments, support, and maintenance projects for IBM.

systems specialist

united states air force

1985-1 - 1990-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Initiated, performed, maintained, and sole responsible for personnel data systems, records, career progressions, correspondences, and customer service functions. Supervised, managed, tested, and established a new evaluation reporting systems 2000 users base wide. Controlled, supported, maintained, and responsible for top-secret exercises through out the European Theater for the Joint Chief of Staff. Handled data management systems for entire bases throughout various locations in Europe. Designed, trained business practices and procedures for functions within 25 different internal organizations. Created policies that upper management had defined and implemented successfully. Top Secret Clearance Held.

private equity investor

ts investments

2005-1 - Present · 21 yrs 9 mos

independent it consultant

independent contractor

1994-1 - 2004-1 · 10 yrs 1 mo

* Indpendent IT Consultant managing several high profile IT projects from mainframe, client server, custom software development, security, ecommerce, web development for startups in Silicon Valley, Fortune 500 companies * Columbia Machine, Portland Community College, Freightliner, Medpartners, Tactica, Qualcomm, Kaiser Permanente, Intuit, EllieMae, U of Alaska, Disney, Healthnet, Honda Corp. Highlights: Intuit, Inc. * Manged, created, and implemented ($2.5M project) the first "kiosk" shopping cart for all quicken & quickbooks products * generated $12M in the first month. EllieMae * B2B mortgage website system and implemented the first system that provided "real time" applications from broker to financial insitutions. Managed $20M budget. Honda * Developed the first ecommerce website for dealer network to consumers, honda finance, autoconfigurator for all websites B2C * 10M + yearly budget.