The Great Lakes Science CenterSteve has assumed the role of Board Chairman as of December 2019. Previous to this, he served on the Executive Committee and the Investment Committee- Mission: To make Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math come alive. - Vision: A community where all people value science, technology, engineering, and math to inform decision-making and enrich lives.

ClearWinds Capital Group is an alternative investment micro hedge fund with a focus on the ETF derivative markets. We concentrate on theta decay strategies to earn investment premium in all market environments. We seek to provide the personalized touch of a boutique investment management firm, with the experience and insights of larger institutional firmsWebsitehttp://www.clearwindscapital.com

CDK invests in and offers services to Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses. Our expertise covers the areas of Consumer Products, Technology, Service Business, Real Estate, and Financial Products; with special emphasis in the areas of Derivative Investments (theta decay option strategies) Real Estate Investments (patent pending "Buy Without The Bank" and "Find Your Own Rent To Own" concepts), and Consumer Product Retail Distribution. The CDK team brings both financial and managerial resources together with expertise to insure the success of the entrepreneurial venture.Read more: http://stevekarklin.webnode.com/

Steve serves on the Board of the Retirement Fund Investment Committee and serves as Chairman of the Defined Benefit Plan sub committee. The Defined Benefit Plan serves over 2500 beneficiaries from the Federation and the Agencies it supports.

In addition to serving on the general Board of Trustees, Steve serves as an Officer, as a member of the Executive Committee, and as Co-Chairman of the Development Committee.

SPS Partners is a residential Real Estate Investment Partnership focused on saving homeowners in foreclosure from losing their homes. We would acquire their properties via short sales with banks and then enter into a lease option contract with them until they could re-establish home ownership. SPS Partners utilized the patent pending concepts of "Buy Without The Bank" and "Find Your Own Rent To Own" licensed from CDK Enterprises.

Applitech invented, patented, and brought to market several ingenious consumer products including Safe2Touch, the "on the go surface cleaner"

Formation Imports owns an Amethyst mine in the southern part of Brazil, and imports the finest stones and geodes into the United States. The product is wholesaled throughout the country, and retailed by the likes of Neiman Marcus, as well as independent jewelry stores and previously by our own corporate Formations branded retail store.

Enterprise software solution for corporate strategic planning, collaboration, and intracompany communications

QuikCAT used the technology of Cellular Automata Transforms "(CAT) to compress, and encrypt data to greatly speed the transfer of data through 56k modems (the dominant technology at the time) Nortel networks, the 2nd largest networking company of the time, validated our technology, made a substantial investment in the company, and we created and supplied their private label products in the space. If you remember AOL "high speed", Net Zero "high speed" or EarthLink "high speed" , then you used QuikCAT software

Director, President - Improvita had an innovative zinc infused candy sucker for children, called CoughPops, to shorten the life and symptoms of colds and allergies.  Successes included taking the near bankrupt company with little retail distribution, and transforming it into a profitable thriving entity. Steve created and introduced new flavors and line extentions, procured retail distribution in the supermarket, chain drug, non food and mass merchandiser classes of trade, re-designed the marketing strategy, and optimized the co-packing manufacturing and freight logistics before selling the venture in 2001.

Chairman, President , and CEO of KMH Inc, a Food Brokerage organization, handling the marketing, sales and retail distribution for manufacturers which did not have direct sales forces of their own. Steve helped build this to over 250 million dollars of annual sales. During his ownership of KMH, Steve's clients included some of the largest and well-known names in consumer products. These included Nestle, Heinz, Coke Foods, Nabisco, Unilever, Dannon, Kellogg's, DowBrands, Borden, Duracell, Playtex, Dial Corp, Fuji, Smithkline Beecham, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, among many others.