Mr. Steve Myers is a four-time serial entrepreneur, two-time Air Force veteran, aviator, author, and philanthropist.  An internationally recognized thought leader on business competitiveness, he is a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. A Stanford University graduate in Mathematics, he was an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for Software and Information Services, and a recipient of the California Governor’s Special Recognition 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. At the Pacific Council on International Policy he served as a member of the Board of Directors and as the Chairman of the National Security Membership Committee.

Mr. Myers founded and led for 25 years the A&D Industry management consulting firm SM&A, spearheading industry-changing innovations for winning and executing U.S. government programs, managing more than $360 billion in major program competitions. His private equity investment company, Dolphin Capital Holdings Inc., invests in businesses with innovative business strategies. He serves on several public and private company boards. He is the Chairman of LSI, Inc., a national A&D technical services company, and on a Director at Caladrius Biosciences, a publicly traded developer of therapies for orphin diseases.

A highly accomplished aviator, with more than 6,000 hours of flight time and 11 jet type ratings, at the end of the Cold War Mr. Myers was the first Westerner to fly an aircraft into the Kamchatka Peninsula in Far Eastern Russia. There, he led the creation of one of the earliest Russian-American joint ventures, converting a remote, but strategically located military air base into a refueling base for international cargo carriers.