Steve Barsh Email & Phone Number

Park City, Ut, Us

Advisor to CEOs, founders, and startups in a range of industries and an advisor to leading venture funds. Coach high-performing CEOs and serve as a board member in technology-first companies.Advisor to hundreds of startups and vertical-leading companies, including SeatGeek (ticketing), Eko Health (smart stethoscopes), Wellth (behavioral economics meets healthcare), Ruvna (school safety for students and staff), Brelyon (headset-free virtual displays), and Hospitable (leading platform for vacation rental hosts).

As the visionary Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Parker Chase Properties, Steve is driven by an unwavering passion for curating extraordinary luxury experiences. Since acquiring our first property in Park City, Utah, in 1999, we have meticulously expanded our portfolio to include four additional premier ski-in/ski-out destinations in Park City and Deer Valley. Each property is a testament to our dedication to excellence, designed to surpass the expectations of our discerning guests—individuals accustomed to the impeccable standards of luxury hotels such as The Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, and St. Regis.At Parker Chase Properties, our commitment goes beyond providing luxury accommodations; we are dedicated to crafting unforgettable experiences. From the moment of booking to the final farewell, every detail is meticulously planned to ensure a seamless, personalized stay that leaves a lasting impression.Our approach is both comprehensive and selective. While we maintain full ownership and management of most of our properties, we also offer exclusive management services for other luxury estates, elevating them to the same exacting standards that define the Parker Chase experience. Every property under our care is a reflection of our relentless pursuit of perfection, where cutting-edge amenities and technology meet unparalleled service, creating a haven of luxury that feels like home.

Silicon Valley, Ca, Us

Special advisor to the Inception Studio team and the startups they are building. Inception Studio is an exclusive Bay Area community of highly experienced and exceptional entrepreneurs and builders.

Silicon Valley, Us

Global Information Technology 1000 (GIT1K) end user angel syndicate.

Granada, Granada, Es

Ecosystems 2030 is an intimate, invitation-only, interdisciplinary forum exploring the ecosystems emerging over the next decade from a wide array of disruptive technologies. The Summit invites a highly diverse and influential group of 50 speakers and only 100 participants, including C-level executives, ministers, prime ministers, and thought leaders worldwide.Speakers and attendees gain an invaluable opportunity to meet with some of the world’s leading change-makers in a uniquely intimate setting to solidify genuine connections, share innovative ideas and generate transformational cross-industry learning and partnerships.

San Mateo, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Steve drives and innovates Dreamit's venture model while also innovating across Dreamit's growing global community of over 350+ healthtech, securetech, and urbantech startups. Key responsibilities include shaping and executing Dreamit's unique strategy for pressure testing and de-risking startups in an extremely compressed time frame, meeting with startups globally to find the best-of-the-best teams and ideas, structuring investments into early stage companies, and working with corporations and organizations interested in seeing "over the horizon" in their industry by partnering with Dreamit and Dreamit portfolio companies.

New York, Ny, Us

The #DreamitDose is a short-format, highly pragmatic video series on key topics where startups consistently stumble (usually without even knowing it). Steve worked with a great team at Dreamit where together we wrote, shot and post-produced the series. While Dreamit's YouTube channel in 2019 was nearly 10 year old, there were only 300 subscribers and little activity. Over a period of 3 years we organically grew Dreamit's YouTube subscribers to over 20,000 and continue to generate tremendous views and engagement. The Dreamit Dose not only helps founders and startups around the world, but highlights Dreamit's differentiated thinking, brand, and thought leadership.

New York, Ny, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

The NASA Cross Industry Innovation Summit started September 2016 at NASA Space Center Houston with ~100 people from over 10 countries. Dr. Omar Hatamleh, NASA Chief Innovation Officer, originated the idea and vision to create a conference of innovation executives from global world-leading institutions. The conference aim is to share and collaborate on best practices accelerating cross-industry learning and innovation globally.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Working with the CHOP executive suite, advisor on identifying, de-risking, and commercializing novel IP with strong pediatric indications that provide revenue diversification opportunities through scientific entrepreneurship. Exploring IP and spinout opportunities in the areas of 3D medical imaging/printing, vehicle simulation, cardiology, neuroimaging, neurosurgery, advanced medical imaging, radiology, digital pathology, genomics, medical devices, regenerative medicine, and dermatology.Work involves strategy creation and execution to help CHOP and its team members more quickly ripen, pivot, or trim commercially oriented projects in order to streamline and quicken the commercial IP innovation process. This includes rapidly educating hundreds of physicians, researchers, and administration team members on how to identify and de-risk critical assumptions on innovative ideas for healthcare-related diagnostics, software applications, devices, procedures, and mobile apps. As well providing project / team level accelerative mentoring.

Steve was responsible for working with leading brands in the US and Europe to maximize product-market fit to their greatest needs, discovering new features and benefits myList could deliver to maximize end-to-end social engagement, and rapidly delivering feedback and understanding from brands to the myList software development, marketing, and client services teams.Accomplishments:► Drove input and expansion from over 10 distinct verticals.► Delivered nearly two dozen Fortune 500 brands for live production trials.► Built the go-to-market strategy including the trial to close process.► Built an on-boarding process to grow a sales team.myList is a social media solution for brands struggling to get a real connection to their social media users that the brand owns and controls. myList enables brands to get greater lifetime value from their social connections, drive much deeper, wider and authentic engagement, and get deep, actionable insights. Companies in the US and Europe including Campbell’s Soup, Procter & Gamble, FIAT, Disney and Philips leveraged myList to deliver Facebook-native content about their products in a highly engaging and socially acceptable way. As well, myList offers brands extremely deep demographic and psychographic insights that brands leverage for more efficient media buys and to uncover new partnership opportunities. myList, launched in late 2012 and was born from Channel Intelligence (CI), a leader in eCommerce that was acquired by Google in 2013.

Conshohocken, Pa, Us

Steve founded Packlate in 2009 and grew it to a multi-million dollar run rate and the largest real time global vacation rental network. Packlate provided instantly confirmed reservations on over 35,000 vacation homes in more than 40 countries. Packlate's real time network could deliver a confirmed booking on an individual vacation home in ~6 seconds. Steve's deep understanding of technology, marketing, business development, and vacation rental product enabled global travel companies to participate in the rapidly expanding $85 billion vacation rental market. Packlate was backed by Genacast, First Round Capital, First Mark, and Artists & Instigators.Steve met with clients and suppliers globally to open up new sources of supply and demand. In less than 3 years Steve helped Packlate grow supply relationships to over 200 property managers spanning 5 continents. Steve helped negotiate strategic supplier agreements as well as demand channel agreements with online travel agencies and travel wholesalers.

New York, Ny, Us

Steve guided Notehall (acquired by Chegg), SeatGeek (backed by Accel Partners, Lerer Ventures, Founder Collective, Ashton Kutcher, Peyton Manning, Eli Manning) and Parse.ly (backed by Grotech Ventures, Blumberg Capital, and ff Venture Capital).Steve was the Managing Partner for DreamIt Ventures 2009, a pre-seed stage venture accelerator that provides aspiring entrepreneurs with funding and a rigorous process to bring innovative ideas to market. Steve was involved in helping DreamIt raise capital, selecting 12 companies to join from over 300 submissions, and helping all teams complete initial de-risking and assess product-market fit..

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Steve was a Project Faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School where he taught, coached, and guided international MBA Global Consulting Practicum (GCP) teams that focused on developing actionable, US-focused go-to-market expansion strategies for companies from Israel and South Korea. The MBA's who make it through the extremely work-intensive practicum obtain hard-earned real world experience in McKinsey / Bain / BCG style strategic consulting.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Looked at deals, worked on my own ideas, and spent time with a great, extremely talented team of hard-working, extremely experienced tech entrepreneurs and VCs.

Working as a consultant to the founding team, helped Get Satisfaction refine the company and product positioning including alignment of value proposition with target market segments and greatest needs. Helped conduct primary research with target Fortune 500 customers on how Get Satisfaction can add the most value to their organizations. Helped refine overall marketing strategy including positioning, differentiation, messaging, PR, and branding. As well helped with strategic consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.

Tristar Lighting manufactured and sold energy efficient lighting products for commercial and industrial lighting retrofits. Tristar Lighting’s products are installed throughout the U.S. in top military locations, commercial and industrial buildings, federal & municipal government facilities, universities, K-12 schools, and a wide range of other market verticals.

Steve led an Internet company focusing on the baby boomer space -- iGrandparents.com. In less than a year, iGrandparents became the largest and fastest growing website focused exclusively on baby boomers. At iGrandparents Steve raised over $6 million in financing and grew revenue at 25% per quarter while increasing operating expenses only 12% per quarter.

TTR designed and marketed digital anti-piracy products. Steve led the filing of a follow-on SB2 offering resulting in a 10 day SEC no-review approval. He was responsible for focusing the organization's mission and positioning and driving those components through all facets of the business. At the same time, Steve focused corporate resources on newly identified beachhead markets. Within these beachheads, Steve worked with key strategic prospects and clients in the US and Europe. As well, he re-aligned the staff and organization-wide roles and responsibilities. Finally, he overhauled the sales organization including recruiting a VP Sales, reformulating sales commissions, and implementing reliable forecasting procedures.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

MCI's Online Knowledge Group (OKG) developed, sold, and supported industry-leading software tools that enabled information technology (IT) organizations to quickly manage and deliver complex software projects. Steve was asked to lead the OKG after MCI acquired SECA, Steve's first company, which was merged into the OKG. During his first full year, he produced the first profitable year in OKG's 6-year history by growing revenue to $10 million while reducing expenses by 22%. He led a team of 90 people spanning the US, Canada, Mexico, and the UK. Steve focused on the mission and vision of the organization while transforming the OKG into a marketing-focused software company. During his tenure, the OKG conducted new business with clients, including AAA, ABN Amro, AT&T, Bank of Russia, CAC (Japan), Canada Post, CSC, Dow Brands, Great West Life, INTESA (Venezuela), Samsung Data Systems, TelMex, and the Treasury Board of Canada.

Steve started SECA while in his senior year at the University of Michigan. He led the growth of SECA from an IT consulting firm into a dominating player in the process / project management software tools market. Steve led SECA to 8 straight years of increasing revenues and profits with a 60% CAGR. SECA achieved greater than an 8x run-rate multiple (more than 3 times the median average at that time) through the acquisition of SECA by MCI. Steve also was responsible for securing strategic client funding for new product development. Steve presented extensively in North America, Europe, South America, and Asia and briefed industry analysts. SECA clients included Abbott Labs, Bank of Montreal, Chemical Bank, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan, Marsh & McLennan, National Institutes of Health, State Farm Insurance Companies, Thomson Consumer Electronics, US HealthCare, and the US State Department.

While attending the University of Michigan, Steve worked at ERIM developing software to analyze and study synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for both aircraft and space-based platforms. At that time, Steve was the youngest ERIM employee to receive a secret level security clearance. As well, he participated in field operations and flight missions.