David E. Steele
President

Mr. Steele has served the utility industry for over 30 years. His extensive experience and diverse background ranges from corporate officer level positions to entrepreneurial roles. He has successfully led three start-up ventures, and has been affiliated the past seven years with private equity ventures in the energy space. Mr. Steele's international experience includes Europe, Canada and India.

In corporate roles, Mr. Steele's early professional development began with a series of progressive assignments in a Midwestern public utility; ultimately becoming the officer responsible for all customer facing divisions. More recently, he was the head of North America for UK based Vertex Data Science Ltd, an international business process outsourcing company providing services on three continents. Mr. Steele's North American responsibility included a team of over 1,200 employees in the United States and Canada.

In entrepreneurial roles, his success has included start-up ventures and turnaround efforts. He successfully led an accelerated growth and operational excellence strategy for IEI Financial Services resulting in becoming the 29^th J.D. Power and Associates Certified Customer Operations Center is the United States. This led to a successful liquidity event by an international company and consortium of blue chip investors.   

Mr. Steele has also been an award winning faculty member at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business where he has lectured for 12 years. Most recently, he was appointed by the US Department of Commerce to Board of Examiners for the 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.  

Mr. Steele is a graduate of Indiana University where he majored in business economics and public policy at the Kelley School of Business. Post college training, Steele's  professional development curricula includes residency at New York Stock Exchange/Euronext, New York Mercantile Exchange, Columbia University, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Center for Creative Leadership, Sales Performance International, National Institute of Standards and Technology/US Department of Commerce. He is a decorated veteran of the US Army intelligence corps; serving in field assignments overseas and strategic assignments in Washington, D.C.

Steele is also a member of The Alliance, a professional group of senior executives affiliated and led by emeritus status faculty members at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business; members are selected by their ability to address and create new methods of identifying and solving problems commonly encountered by entrepreneurs.