Steven L. Pease is President of Deucalion Securities, Inc., a management services and investment firm formed in 1980 to provide his services as "turnaround" CEO to a number of troubled companies. In 1987, he also formed Deucalion Venture Partners, a private equity firm which he served as General Partner.
He is Co-Chair of The U.S. Russia Foundation, Chairman of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund, and a director of the U.S. Russia Center for Entrepreneurship. All three arose from a $330 million U.S. Government grant to encourage free enterprise and entrepreneurship in Russia following the demise of the Soviet Union.
Mr. Pease began his career in 1967 as a management consultant with Cresap, McCormick & Paget (now part of Towers Perrin Group). There, he was responsible for a wide range of consulting engagements for public and private clients in the U.S. and abroad. Three years later, he joined Arcata National, a Fortune 500 company, to head its corporate planning function. Over the years since he has served as CEO of seven public and private companies including: Arcata Data Management, Sanborn Map Co., Wallbangers, PLM (NASDAQ:PLM), Transcisco (NASDAQ:TNI), Liquid Crystal Technologies, and Salestar. He also served as COO of Real Estate Data (AMEX:REDI), and as Vice Chairman of Sovfinamtrans (SFAT), a highly successful Russian rail transport company created in partnership with the Russian Ministry of Rails and the Ministry of Petrochemicals.
Active in community affairs, he is a Board member of the Sonoma Valley Fund and a member of its Grants Committee and Youth Initiative Committee. Previously he served as Co-Chair of the Sonoma Valley Healthcare Coalition and on a number of other committees focused on preserving Sonoma's endangered hospital. He was a director and President of the George Ranch Community Association, led efforts to help save the historic single screen Sebastiani theater in downtown Sonoma, California, and was a founding director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Program at Sonoma State University. He was also a director of the Common Bond Foundation, which operates radio station KSVY in Sonoma Valley and supports bilingual education in the Valley.
Mr. Pease has served on the Boards of nearly 50 public and private companies and has been a consultant to numerous others.
A magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington in 1965, and Harvard Business School in 1967, Mr. Pease lives with his wife, Joyce, in Sonoma, California.
