Experienced finance, energy and policy professional. Focused on making Texas and the United States the leading jurisdiction in the world for high performance computing and artificial intelligence innovation.

Steve has over 20 years of experience including market intelligence, corporate strategy, and marketing leadership. Steve has started, built, and sold multiple businesses. As an experienced Go-To-Market leader with deep expertise in market and customer discovery, he brings his extensive knowledge to bear on strategic marketing initiatives that drive business growth and increase value for stakeholders.

I am Steve Leaden, founder and President of Leaden Associates, Inc. Enterprise clients leverage our services when - You have risk with end-of-support enterprise phone systems - You desire to move to the cloud UC or Contact Center and need expert help - You want to enhance their Customer Experience leveraging Contact Center, UC, and collaboration - You have to cost justify your new investment with strong ROI strategies - You need an independent expert to support their strategy and decision for E911 Clients in the health care, education, manufacturing, financial services, publishing and government market segments have come to rely on our team for best-in-class designs and implementations and the expertise to minimize risk associated with medium-to-large scale enterprise implementations.

Unflappable old copywriter who knows the difference between champing and chomping at the bit. Does that particular bit of arcana matter to your business? Probably not. But *something* you do want to say needs to get said perfectly, with precision and flair (not flare). I can help you get that done. For your book, your headline, your sales page...or your coffee can.

Steve is a US-based Entrepreneur, Investor, Innovator, Founder and Board Advisor after successful careers in Corporate (18+ years in Executive positions) and Academia (17+ years in research and scientific Academic positions). Since an early retirement in late 2012 from a successful Corporate executive career at P&G as Chief Innovation Catalyst, Steve has founded or co-founded four companies in the healthcare, tech, sustainability and innovation sectors, sits on several Advisory Boards across a variety of sectors and also works closely with several global innovation advisory companies. Since early 2013, Steve has consulted with more than 25 Fortune 200 companies around how to better leverage external technology and innovations to drive top and bottom line growth across the automotive, apparel, healthcare, B2B, consumer, financial, travel and tech sectors. Steve has also been advising Governments on innovation strategies since late 2014. He has been consulting with the Australian Government for their innovation agency CSIRO on how to create new business models and strategies to globalize their impact. He also has been working with the New Zealand Government on innovation strategies to leverage novel, cutting edge technology to provide better transparency, efficiency and services to its citizens. Steve is an accomplished, creative, results-driven executive with a record of success at envisioning opportunities and developing the innovation and strategic plan through internal development, partnering, investing or acquisition to deliver top and bottom line growth. Coupled with strong experience leading global programs that are geographically dispersed, multi-cultural, and multi-functional. and a long history of experience in building internal and external innovation networks to quickly and efficiently identify potential solutions or solution providers provides a unique combination of deep academic, industrial and investment experience.

Experienced Lead Solution Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Digital Strategy, Engineering, Operational Excellence, Business Analysis, and Project Management. Strong engineering professional with a City & Guilds Part 'B' & 'C' focused in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Technological University Dublin.

Cybersecurity Entrepreneur, Journalist, Researcher, Reporter and Publisher. Founder of Cybersecurity Ventures & Editor-in-Chief at Cybercrime Magazine. Executive Producer at WCYB Digital Radio aka 'Cybercrime Radio'. Co-Author of the books "HACKER'S MOVIE GUIDE: The Complete List of Hacker & Cybersecurity Movies" and "WOMEN KNOW CYBER: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime."