Steve began his career as a Trust and Estate lawyer at Davidson, Dawson & Clark and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Then, Steve also served as Fiduciary Trust and Investment Counsel for a major New York money center bank. He was employed by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Gabelli Asset Management divisions where he ran wealth management-related business units and was General Counsel. He was the President and/or Director and legal counsel of a variety of domestic and international mutual funds and fund complexes, including the Malaysia, Thai Funds (US & UK), and Turkey country funds and domestic and international fund groups (Morgan Stanley), the Institutional Liquid Assets (