Gesmer Updegrove LLP

Six degrees of Steve Snyder – he knows who you need to know.  As Gesmer Updegrove’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Steve Snyder’s passion is providing clients with highly effective business guidance and connections to drive revenue, increase profitability and create value. 

Following 17 years of very successfully building, funding and turning vision into reality at three tech companies, Steve works with clients to create growth strategies and find new ways to affect both their top and bottom lines. 

Specialties:

• Decision making with a bias for timely, decisive action
• Growing top line through effective marketing strategy and sales approach
• Utilizing strong managerial and operational credentials with financial acumen and bottom line orientation. 
• Applying financing, acquisition and public company experience

A Sampling of What Client CEOs Are Saying

Todd Cieplinski, President, Universal Mind

Top Qualities: Great Results, High Integrity, Creative

"Steve is an Entrepreneur, Lawyer and Angel on my shoulder all rolled into one. I am very fortunate to have been introduced to Steve and his firm. He is always there for me and truly cares about my business, genuinely concerned about my well being, and continuously offers to provide help through his consultative approach. He is well-networked and has opened many doors for me via his generous introductions. If you are in an emerging technology business, you should be working with Steve. I wish I met him many years sooner.  If it's not obvious by now....I HIGHLY recommend Steve." 

Mike Sachleben, Conversation Evangelist, BlitzTime

Top qualities: Personable, High Integrity, Creative 

“Steve is a generous and widely connected person - he has proactively gone out of his way to introduce me to many people in his network who he believes will positively impact my company. Every time I hear from Steve I drop what I'm doing and respond immediately - because his advice and counsel is just that good. Also, the other partners with whom I worked with Steve at Gesmer Updegrove have been top-notch. I've been very impressed by Gesmer's responsiveness and attention to my needs.” 

Bill Bither, CEO, Atalasoft

Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, High Integrity 

“Steve provides thoughtful and relevant business advise from real experiences at running software startups. He obviously enjoys what he does and is VERY GOOD at providing insight to growing technology companies, setting them up for success. In just a couple months of working with Steve, he's helped me out of a few jams, and always there for our calls. He also works with a great firm at Gesmer of which I've had nothing but positive experiences.” 

Amir Farhi, CEO, TreeTop Technologies

Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Expert 

“I honestly don’t know where to start when describing what a great person Steve Snyder is. Although I’ve only known Steve for less than a year, he has been a great advisor, supporter, promoter, and above all, a friend, to me and my company. Steve’s wealth of experience and wisdom when it comes to all aspects of running a business successfully (including sales and marketing, finance, operations, legal, HR, etc.) is simply unparalleled. Steve is also a fantastic networker, and has a knack for connecting the right people. Since I first met Steve, he’s always been there for me, always adding value and helping push things forward. I feel grateful to know, work and just talk with Steve.” 

Don Ulsch, CEO, ZeroPoint Risk Research

Top qualities: Great Results, Good Value, High Integrity 

“I do not write many recommendations. But for Steve Snyder, I am privileged to do so, because he has brought great value to our firm, ZeroPoint Risk Research, LLC. Steve has made great efforts to really understand our business by attending meetings, telephone calls, and email. He has made a series of introductions for us which are resulting in strategic relationships that are laying the foundation for significant financial transactions. The value delivered by Steve has greatly exceeded our expectations. We consider Steve Snyder and Gesmer Updegrove to be a critical extension of our firm.”

David Gowel, President, Clearly Creative Marketing

Top qualities: Personable, Expert, High Integrity 

“Steve is an amazing entrepreneur-in-residence amongst a group of amazing attorneys at Gesmer Updegrove. I've used Steve's services and the services of others at Gesmer for both myself and my start-up firm's clients with nothing but the best results. Steve is incredibly dedicated, thoughtful, honest and an absolute pleasure to work with and I highly recommend him to anybody as an incredibly trusted friend and business partner. If you are thinking of working with Steve and would like more detail on this recommendation, don't hesitate to contact me at goweld@mit.edu.”

Prior to joining Gesmer Updegrove, Steve was the Vice President of Business Development at AmeriVault Corp., a leader in online data backup services, Chief Operating Officer of Sowles Trauring, a large regional health care services organization, President of Centerstone Software, a facility management software company and Chief Operating Officer of Software Partners, a storage management software company. He began his career as a practicing corporate and securities attorney and was a founding partner of O'Connor Broude Snyder & Aronson.