Steven Simon is founder and CEO of Simon Ventures, a private equity investment firm headquartered in Minneapolis.

He served as President and CEO of American Sharecom, Inc., a long-distance company sold to Frontier Communications in 1995, and as Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Finance with the Donaldson Industrial Group, a leading manufacturer of industrial air/liquid filtration equipment.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Simon served as a securities analyst for Dain Bosworth and as a financial analyst at Aetna Insurance.