Steven Perkins

About Steven Perkins

Steve Perkins is a seasoned and dynamic executive, who is committed to helping disruptive technology and services businesses and their leaders, scale profitably, restructure effectively and operate efficiently. Instincts honed in senior leadership roles including chief growth officer, national and global managing director for sales and professional services, chief operating officer, chief strategy officer, strategy partner and external board member. Focused on driving change at senior executive and operational levels across functions. Strong ability to set strategy, drive growth, and to attract/retain high performing teams, manage profitable clients and build high-impact corporate alliances. Partnered with great teams in exploiting new markets, creating new product and service categories, increasing revenue, scaling and restructuring operations, and generating growth and profitability. Experienced at building to and operating at scale, leading teams of thousands and exceeding annual revenue goals in the billions. Led global teams and initiatives across marketing, sales, account management, pre-sales consulting, and alliances, driving growth and innovation for both established and emerging companies. Proven, extensive track record in enterprise technology and management consulting sectors delivering profitable growth, building and managing high performing organizations, impactful alliances, designing and implementing business and operating strategies for wide variety of commercial and government organizations, both domestically and internationally. Extensive experience helping companies, large and small grow profitably and solve challenging business problems. Industry sectors of particular experience include technology, public sector, financial services and professional services, and have worked in across every major industry sector. Worked closely with customers on enterprise technology business strategy and deployment.

Experience

1. National Managing Director, Global and Us Technology Industries

   Grant Thornton (US)

   Feb 2012 — Present · Alexandria, VA

   Led the US Technology industry (TIP), which provides audit, tax and advisory services to public and private technology product and services companies. Steve also led the Grant Thornrton International (GTI) Technology, Telecommunications and Media Industry global community comprised of the technology industry leaders from among the 120 Grant Thornton member firms around the globe.

Education

• American University

  1978, Masters Degree in Public Administration

  1976 — 1978

• Le Moyne College

  History, B.A.

  1971 — 1975