Overview

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Steve is the Founding Director of the Georgetown University Law Center Business Program, where he is creating a curriculum and leading the development of courses to teach law students the fundamentals of business. Before that, he was President and General Manager of The Washington Post for 13 years. While there, he led the Post to greater digital audience growth than any media company in 2015, surpassing the New York Times in audience size. Under his leadership, the Post was named “Most Innovative Media Company in the World” for 2015 by Fast Company.

Steve also created the business case that convinced Post ownership to sell the Post to Jeff Bezos, and he consummated the sale. Steve was also one of five Directors of Classified Ventures, owners of cars.com and apartments.com, helping lead those companies to extraordinary growth.

Steve’s career started after College when he used $2,000 in savings to co-found The Bay City Business Journal in the San Francisco Bay Area, which – under his leadership – grew within two years to become the largest controlled circulation business publication in Northern California.

Steve graduated from Yale University and received an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.