Steve Lewis

Lecturer Steve Lewis has spent three decades helping build successful operations and technology-intensive companies. He sits on Procter & Gamble’s External Board for Supply Innovation and has been a board member of several public and private technologies companies, including Axcient, Borland and PC Helps. Lewis has founded and built three category-defining, sector-leading companies. He was the founder and CEO of Teneros, where he created the category of Application Continuity Appliances for ending email downtime. He was previously the CEO of All Covered, which under his leadership grew from a single office to the largest outsourced IT provider to U.S. small businesses. Lewis was previously a partner and managing director of Generation Ventures, a venture firm focused on China. While at Generation Ventures, he co-founded both Guangzhou HuaMei Telecommunications, China’s first broadband telecommunications company, and Pharmanex, today the world’s leading phyto-pharmaceutical company. Earlier in his career, Lewis spent a decade with the consulting firm Booz Allen & Hamilton, where he was a partner assisting top executives of the Global 1000 gain competitive advantages through technology and global operations. Lewis earned his MBA, M.S. in industrial engineering, and B.A. in economics all from Stanford University.