Member
Mr.
Name:
Steven S. Myers
Expertise
Europe & Russia
National Security & Defense
Los Angeles, CA
United States Mr. Steven Myers is a four-time serial entrepreneur, two-time Air Force veteran, highly accomplished aviator, bestselling author, essayist, and public speaker. A Stanford University graduate in Mathematics, he is an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year”, a recipient of the California Governor’s Special Recognition Award, and the FAA Wright Brothers Award.
He served on the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy for three terms. He served on the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council Task Force on Cyber Resources. Steve is a former board member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and served for many years as chairman of PCIP’s National Security member committee. He is a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship at the USC Marshall School of Business.
Steve founded SM&A, Inc., which grew into a NASDAQ-listed $110 million annual revenue international consulting company serving aerospace & defense clients. After the 1998 IPO, he served as Chairman & CEO for ten years, before the company was sold to private equity in 2008. His private equity investment company, Dolphin Capital Holdings Inc., has a wide array of investments. He has served on a dozen public and private company boards, and as chairman of three.
With 6,200 hours of flight time, Steve holds an Airline Transport Pilot license with twelve jet type ratings, including the Boeing 777. In 1992, at the end of the Cold War he became the first American since Charles Lindbergh in 1931, to pilot an aircraft into the Russian Far East and the Kamchatka peninsula. There he formed one of the first post-Soviet era joint ventures. His highly reviewed Amazon best-selling book, "Cross Winds: Adventure and Entrepreneurship in the Russian Far East" is available on Amazon or at StevenMyers.com.
