Steve began his 25-year financial services career immediately upon graduation from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1992.  He achieved a B. A. degree, Magna Cum Laude, with a double major of Economics and Business Administration.

As a native Iowan, born and raised on his families’ farm in nearby Wellman, Iowa his heritage was deeply engaged in agriculture. Steve founded Farm Financial Strategies (FFS), a program to offer strategies to ‘preserve the family farm’. Today FFS has 14 associates and does business in 7 Midwestern states.  Steve has served as President of Cedar Rapids Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors.  He also served on the board of directors for the Iowa FFA Foundation and Coe College’s Board of Visitors.