Jeff Steen
Jeff Steen is a co-founder of and advisor to Ecosa Capital. He is also CFO for Golden Valley Citrus, a vertically integrated citrus fruit growing, packing and marketing firm. At Golden Valley, he is responsible for strategic planning and financial decisions.
Jeff serves on the board of directors of Conservation Burial Partners, a land conservation and cemetery firm, and was formerly on the business advisory board for the Environmental Education Council of Marin. He taught environmental entrepreneurship at Stanford University in the Public Policy Department and social entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley in the Haas School of Business. In addition, he was a lecturer at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California where he is still an associate at the Center for the Study of Fiduciary Capitalism.
Prior to Ecosa, he founded and ran the Barneson Group, a strategy consulting firm, where he consulted with senior executives in the areas of sustainability, strategic management, competitiveness, and growth strategy. Before that, Jeff was at Peppers and Rogers Group, a boutique management consultancy, where he launched the firm's incubator/growth strategy practice. Earlier in his career Jeff worked for American Management Systems, a $1 billion systems integrator. There, he was a subject matter expert in finance, industrial products and enterprise software.
Before his business career, Jeff was a principal in a political consulting firm and was the Director of Policy and Press Secretary for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. There he oversaw policy decisions in the area of trade, economics, foreign affairs and labor.
Jeff earned an MBA with honors from Georgetown and a BA in History from the University of Miami, also with honors.