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Steve Brown

As Head of Business Development, Steve Brown is responsible for helping drive growth at Star, with a focus on go-to-market planning, data and vendor partnerships, channel sales, new markets, and mergers and acquisitions. Steve joined Star in April 2021 with 25 years of experience in advising financial firms on regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Star, Steve was Director of Broker-Dealer Client Services at Compliance Risk Concepts LLC, a senior director at PwC, and Head of Fixed Income and Capital Markets Compliance at U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. Steve is considered a pioneer in the control room space, having begun his career at Wachovia, where he was Head of Global Investment Banking Compliance and Control Group and established the bank’s first formal control room function. Read Steve’s take on insider trading for Traders Magazine here.

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