Steve Beck

Steve Beck is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Novastar Ventures. He is a former Founding Partner of SpringHill Equity Partners. He attended Stanford University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Steve Beck began his career in management consulting and spent 18 years advising business leaders of global Fortune 200 companies on strategy, organization, and change management. As Managing Director of Gemini Consulting (a division of Cap Gemini), Steve then led the company’s most profitable division with some 500 consultants and $200 million in revenues from nine offices in Europe, Asia and South Africa. Later, Steve joined Monitor Group as a Senior Partner, co-leading the Group’s business in Europe and Africa. During these years in consulting, Steve honed his understanding of competitive strategy and organizational leadership. Seeking an outlet for his academic training and passion for international development, Steve took leave of consulting in 2002 to help lead a new philanthropic advisory and grant management firm focused on humanitarian relief and development in the Global South called Geneva Global. Under Steve’s leadership, Geneva became a recognized leader in results-focused international philanthropy, managing $80 million of grants to more than a thousand community-based projects in global health, human liberty, microfinance, education and conflict recovery. During his time traveling to East Africa with Geneva Global, Steve began to see the possibility of pursuing philanthropic motives through commercial for-profit ventures.