He has over 25 years of business law experience with emerging and high growth companies. He began his legal career as an Enforcement Attorney with the Securities & Exchange Commission in San Francisco. He went on to become in-house counsel with several publicly traded and pre-IPO companies in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley in both a legal and business development capacity. During the "Dot-Com Boom" in 1999-2000, Steve was the sole in-house counsel for a Silicon Valley B2B e-Commerce company before its monster IPO, negotiating and drafting all of the company�s license agreements and strategic partnering and joint marketing arrangements. Thereafter he relocated to San Diego, and became Special Counsel to MP3.com, Inc., formerly the world�s largest online music service provider, where he advised management on, and negotiated, complex license and business agreements.