Steve Carlson

Financial Services and Technology senior executive with experience at Intuit (Mint.com/Quicken), HSBC, WaMu/Chase, and start-ups. Proven and deep general management, strategy, marketing, and business development expertise. Active advisor and investor. - Experienced at managing businesses through rapid growth phases and structural realignments. Developed and managed a $700MM+ line of business with $125MM OPEX budget - Strong foundation in subscription based and lead-gen models. Developed 4 subscription products, generating $500MM+ in revenue, in which 4MM+ customers enrolled - Proven results in both corporate and start up environments - Experience concurrently managing multiple lines of businesses - Via mergers and acquisitions, have led the mergers of three separate business lines - Consistently recognized for exceptional leadership and staff development skills Specialties: Recurring revenue and lead-gen business models, customer lifecycle management (including acquisition and retention), analytically driven multi-channel marketing (SEO, SEM, affiliate, display, mobile, phone, direct mail, and retail), PR and branding, partnership and vendor relations/management, contract negotiation, back-end operation oversight, extremely strong leadership and communication skills, business integration/merger experience