Steve Spencer

Steve Spencer

President at Twelve Horses and Owner, Twelve Horses

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Current
Past
  • CTO at DotOne
  • Engineering Director at Critical Path
  • CTO at DotOne
  • Various (QA, Project Mgmt, etc.) at Unisys
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Industry
Marketing and Advertising
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Steve Spencer’s Summary

“One of the state's hottest and brightest business leaders under the age of 40”
Utah Business Magazine

“One of the 100 most likely people to lead a successful venture in Utah within the next few years.”
vSpring Capital

Steve Spencer, president and CTO of Twelve Horses has spent more than 20 years in the technology industry providing leadership for public companies such as Unisys, Critical Path, and dotOne Corporation, He has developed partnerships and architected large scale technology solutions for such companies as Premier Global Services, MCI Worldcom, Sprint, Pitney Bowes, Computer Associates, Qwest and Microsoft. Spencer also co-founded Seek Mobile Interactive, as well as Mediaport, where he and his team were the winners of the 2002 Utah Entrepreneurial challenge.

Spencer is actively involved in the Utah Technology Council (UTC), Utah Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), and serves on the Board for the Westminster College Institute for New Enterprise. He is also co-founder of the Utah New Media Conference (UNMC), and is founder and director of the Utah Tech Spotlight. He has been a business plan judge and mentor at many Funding Universe events, Westminster College business plan competitions, and for multiple top 10 teams in the Utah Entrepreneurial Challenge.

Under Spencer’s leadership as president, the company has been voted one of the “Top 30 Innovative Companies in Utah” by Utah Business Magazine (2009), Technology Company of the Year” by the Technology Business Alliance of Nevada (2007), and “Small Business of the Year” by the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (2005),,. In addition, Spencer was personally named one of vSpring Capital’s “Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs” for 2009, Utah's “40 under 40” for 2008, and #1 on the "five to watch in 2008" by the local Blogging community.

Steve Spencer’s Specialties:

Contract Negotiation, Company Leadership, Marketing, Technical Architecture


Steve Spencer’s Experience

  • President

    Twelve Horses North America

    (Computer Software industry)

    2001Present (8 years)

  • President

    Twelve Horses

    (Computer Software industry)

    February 2001Present (8 years 6 months)

  • CTO

    DotOne

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    October 1996February 2001 (4 years 5 months)

  • Engineering Director

    Critical Path

    (Public Company; CPTH; Computer Software industry)

    June 1999February 2001 (1 year 9 months)

    Headed up engineering efforts in Utah office. Participated with Architecture Committee, and provided technical guidance is several M&A opportunities.

  • CTO

    DotOne

    (Computer Software industry)

    19962001 (5 years)

  • Various (QA, Project Mgmt, etc.)

    Unisys

    (Public Company; UIS; Computer Software industry)

    July 1989September 1996 (7 years 3 months)

    I started at Unisys stringing cables at the age of 18. During my stay there is was a Technician, a QA tester, and a Project Manager.


Additional Information

Steve Spencer’s Websites:

Steve Spencer’s Groups:

Utah Technology Council
Young Entrepreneurs Organization
RMAMA
Westminster College Board for the Institute for New Enterprise

  •    Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)
  •    Utah Technology Council
  •    Twelve Horses
  •    LDS Entrepreneurs
  •    Utah Apple Users Group

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