Director, Venture Well and CFO, Long River Ventures
Springfield, Massachusetts Area
- Current
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- Manager of Venture Development at NCIIA
- CFO at Long River Ventures
- Founder at Zygote Games LLC
- Managing Director at IP (Innovation Path Inc.)
- Past
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- CFO at Canopy Development Company LLC
- Founder, Managing Director at River Valley Investors
- Co-founder at Invention 2 Venture
- President at Mass Ventures Corporation
- CFO at HotRoof Inc.
- Vice-President at Mass Ventures Corporation
- CFO at Ecotrek Inc.
- Controller at AquaFuture Inc.
- Senior Assistant Director, Admissions at Hampshire College
- Business Director at Catalyst Financial Group
- Education
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- University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Isenberg School of Management
- Hampshire College
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Joseph Steig’s Summary
I am a COO/CFO and advisor to business and non-profit entrepreneurs working with entrepreneurs on strategic plans, financial forecasts, business presentations and on business process and technology implementation.
I am most interested in companies and non-profits producing better ways of living in the world; technologies and approaches to world problems that shift how people work, live and collaborate; people who challenge themselves to create a more just, profitable and sustainable society.
Joseph Steig’s Specialties:
financial modeling, data visualization, presentation coaching, presentation development (PowerPoint and Keynote), strategic planning, small business software (including accounting software, CRM, Mac/Windows/mobile integration)
Joseph Steig’s Experience
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Manager of Venture Development
NCIIA
(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Treasurer of NCIIA and director of the Venture Well program for venture development and seed stage investment in companies coming out of the university environment.
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CFO
Long River Ventures
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Early stage venture fund with IT and Healthcare IT focus.
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Founder
Zygote Games LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)
Zygote produces card games that are fun to play and take science and nature as their inspiration, embedding scientific principals into the game play. First two games are BONE WARS: THE GAME OF RUTHLESS PALEONTOLOGY and PARASITES UNLEASHED!
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Managing Director
IP (Innovation Path Inc.)
(Management Consulting industry)
May 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)
Consulting work with select individuals, companies and non-profits advancing the path of innovation.
Clients have included SunEthanol Inc (cellulosic ethanol) and Verite (non-profit ensuring people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal conditions). -
CFO
Canopy Development Company LLC
(Real Estate industry)
January 2005 — December 2007 (3 years )
Canopy Development is a real estate development company focused on creating resort communities that combine green building technologies with innovative village scale masterplanning.
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Founder, Managing Director
River Valley Investors
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
July 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 6 months)
River Valley Investors (www.rivervalleyinvestors.com) is an angel investor group for Western Massachusetts.
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Co-founder
Invention 2 Venture
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Events Services industry)
September 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 9 months)
As a consultant to www.nciia.org, I co-founded this network of workshops on entrepreneurship and invention on college campuses across the U.S. www.invention2venture.org
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President
Mass Ventures Corporation
(Management Consulting industry)
April 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 3 months)
Mass Ventures was a non-profit corporation focussed on early stage technology commercialization and venture development in Western Massachusetts. Its successor is the Regional Technology Corporation, which I co-founded, an organization created in affiliation with University of Massachusetts Amherst under an NSF Partners for Innovation grant.
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CFO
HotRoof Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
November 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 5 months)
HotRoof was a developer of user-customizable video-on-demand technology.
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Vice-President
Mass Ventures Corporation
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
August 1996 — February 2001 (4 years 7 months)
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CFO
Ecotrek Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Sporting Goods industry)
March 1995 — September 1996 (1 year 7 months)
Ecotrek was an outdoor products company making backpacks and apparel in the United States out of recycled polymers. Its designs won Backpacker Editor's Choice awards and later formed the basis for Marmot's first line of backpacks. Our approach was that being green was insufficient. The product had to be fully competitive and innovative in function and design.
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Controller
AquaFuture Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Food Production industry)
July 1990 — July 1996 (6 years 1 month)
AquaFuture was an aquaculture company that developed land-based, sustainable aquaculture technology utilizing state-of-the-art recirculating water filtration technology and produced millions of pounds of farm-raised fish for the restaurant market. Its successor company is publicly traded Australis.us .
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Senior Assistant Director, Admissions
Hampshire College
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)
July 1988 — June 1990 (2 years )
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Business Director
Catalyst Financial Group
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)
June 1987 — June 1988 (1 year 1 month)
Catalyst Financial Group is an investment advisory and lease financing company focused on environmentally and socially responsible companies. I was one of four founding partners. http://www.catalyst-financial.com/
Joseph Steig’s Education
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Isenberg School of Management
Finance, accounting 1989 — 1991
Graduate courses in finance and accounting
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Hampshire College
BA , Social theory , September 1982 — May 1987
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