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Steve Pollock
President | Board Member | Entrepreneur with passion for US-Japan business
Steve Pollock is a dynamic business leader with over 20 years of experience in the business services and technology sectors. He is an excellent communicator and cross-cultural leader with fluent Japanese and cultural know-how and has deep personal networks in the US and Japan. Steve is a Stanford MBA graduate and a Harvard University alumni. He is also a former lecturer at Waseda University, where he taught business strategy, and an analyst at The Nature Conservancy.
Steve is the CEO of Turnstone Ventures, where he leads a team of experts in accelerating and scaling businesses. He is a strategic thinker with a strong track record of driving revenue and growth by putting customers first. As President of WetFeet, Inc., Steve built the team from scratch, grew revenue from $2M to $9M, and sold the company to a much larger company. He was also the VP Japan and VP Customer Success at Gigster, where he helped the company expand globally and provided top-notch service to its customers.
Steve has a unique ability to bridge gaps of language and culture that can prevent good ideas from succeeding. He leads with a "listen first" discipline to understand markets and customers, and a team-focused leadership style that motivates his team and peers to achieve their highest potential.
