Steve Lewis, CEO, Living PlanIT

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Creator and founder of Living PlanIT with broad experience from numerous executive positions in multinational companies like Microsoft and IBM

With Microsoft Corporation until May of 2004, Steve served as General Manager of Market Development and Co-Chair of the Microsoft Business Development Forum. Steve was primarily responsible for understanding key market trends and developments to identify their strategic implications for Microsoft and the industry. He also led the company's strategic business development opportunities & commercial engagements leveraging Microsoft's portfolio of technology, research & development, services, marketing, distribution, partner ecosystem and investment capital.

Before joining Microsoft, Steve spent a couple of years raising capital for technology investments, mergers and acquisitions and participated on the boards of numerous of early through late stage companies.
Prior to this he served as General Manager of the Lotus Messaging and Collaboration division of IBM Corporation, having previously held key executive positions in areas of business development, product strategy, engineering and sales.

Steve is a frequently requested keynote speaker at industry events, respected as a thought leader by the analyst and press community, and is actively involved in promoting entrepreneurship in further education, recently leading lectures at the Harvard Business School, the Kennedy School, the Graduate School of Design and chairing the European Business Plan of the Year Award 2010 held at Cranfield University.