Steven Broad

About Steven Broad

With over 15 years in technical leadership, I produce radical benefits for transforming organizations. Whether for new product introduction (NPI) or revenue acceleration, I build highly productive pre-and post-sales teams who contribute to a customer success, customer retention, and development priorities. With domain knowledge in energy, utilities, and IT, I bridge the gap between business and technology, and enable sales to present complex solutions.Consider some specific business actions and their impacts:1. Grew my Solutions team by 100% over three years and which drove new sales growth to improve by 120% over the same time frame.2. Developed an entire team of Sales Exec team from business and industry novices to capable and quota-fulfilling individual performers over 18 months.3. Executed on 60 new B2B customer adoptions over the last two years.4. Served as a key product development advisor for first generation Desktop to SaaS product transformation.5. As a Business Development Manager, increased new software sales by 100% in one year.6. As a Regional Director, drove reinvestment in technical customer support to improve net promoter scores from 25% promoters to 75% promoters over two years.7. As a Sales Consultant, closed 10 Tier 1 accounts over a two year period.8. As an academic, won a $1million grant to develop a new Master\'s degree program in Data Science. The program launched after two years of development and was entirely organically funded.I am talented at technical leadership and vision because:1. I can see the path forward with unusual and thoughtful insight into complex business problems.2. I have great communication skills, a deep technical background, and the intensity and discipline to convert vision into reality.3. I am committed to creating a work environment that supports super intelligent people to learn each others strengths and never go it alone.4. I have positive energy and am able to keep a team going even through adverse conditions.

Experience

1. Vice President of Product Management

   Zema Global Data Corporation

   Dec 2025 — Present

   As Vice President of Product Management at Zema Global, I lead product strategy and execution across our data and analytics solutions for global energy and commodities markets. My organization carries key responsibilities to product roadmap, developing technology partnerships, strategic acquisition advisory, product pricing & marketing, and commercial enablement.I drive alignment between Product and Technology to deliver software offerings that meet evolving market needs while supporting long-term growth. This includes advancing Decisioning Advantage across the product suite, improving cross-functional delivery velocity, modernizing development methodologies, and strengthening the impact of product, technology, and data teams.Key outcomes I focus on include:* Translating strategic direction into executable product plans and measurable delivery* Accelerating innovation through partnerships and targeted acquisition strategy* Enhancing customer value via improved release quality, product-market fit, and unified go-to-market enablement* Increasing organizational agility to support scalable growth in energy and commodity analyticsMy mandate is to ensure Zema Global’s product portfolio remains competitive, future-ready, and positioned to drive sustainable expansion in a rapidly transforming digital and AI landscape.

Education

• University of Notre Dame

  M.S., Mathematics

  2004 — 2006

• University of Notre Dame

  Ph.D., Mathematics, Differential Geometry, Dynamical Systems, Optimization

  2004 — 2009

• Washington University in St. Louis

  M.A., Mathematics

  1996 — 2000

• University of Evansville

  B.S., Mathematics, Physics

  1992 — 1996

Skills

• Simulations
• Differential Geometry
• Mathematical Modeling
• Dynamical Systems
• .net Framework
• .net
• Java
• Mathematica
• Vba
• Fortran
• Computer Science
• Analysis
• Javascript
• Algorithms
• Teaching
• Data Analysis
• Web Services
• R
• Matlab
• Software Development
• Python
• Latex
• C++
• Theory
• Statistics
• Higher Education
• Wsdl
• Numerical Analysis
• C
• Programming