Steve is a Partner at Diagram working on our Fintech team. He brings over 20 years of experience as an investor and executive in financial services, where he has developed expertise in digital payments and financial infrastructure. Prior to joining Diagram, Steve worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he led the company’s partnership with Y Combinator, and at F-Prime Capital on its fintech investment team.
Previously Steve served as COO of Check, a mobile payments service, where he led product, strategic partnerships, and merchant go-to-market from its inception through its acquisition by Intuit. Check was one of the fastest growing fintechs, acquiring over 10M consumers and processing over $1B in payment volume. Steve began his FinTech career with Yahoo! Finance, the leading destination for financial market news and data, where he held general management and senior product roles. He began his career in software as a product manager at Epiphany, a pioneering enterprise marketing analytics platform.
Steve holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a BA in Economics from UC Davis.