Stephen J. L. Page
Chairman and CEO

Stephen Page was born in London, England. After completing a three-year Executive Management Program with British Telecom, he worked in the firm's "DATEL" division, to provide London's financial district with worldwide data communication services. Mr. Page joined Sperry Univac, Federal Systems Division, in 1974 and spent four years serving the American Armed Forces in top secret computer installations throughout Europe.

In 1978, he joined Itel International to establish the firm's European operations and transferred to Itel, U.S.A., in 1979. In 1979, Mr. Page was recruited by Central Bank to re-engineer the bank's back office Information Technology and Transaction Processing operations. Mr. Page directed the consolidation of RepublicBank of Dallas’ statewide operations from 1980 to 1981. In 1981, he founded Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd to identify senior executives to lead key practices and/or geographies within the best managed, most profitable, global professional services firms.

During the previous 19 years, Page-Wheatcroft & Co., Ltd contributed significantly to the successful expansion of many prominent Legal and Consulting professional services firms. Principal consulting firms served include: Scient; A.T. Kearney, Inc.; Ernst & Young, L.L.P.; Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc.; and, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Global and national law firms served include: Patton Boggs, LLP, Weil Gotshal & Manges, LLP, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and Baker & Botts, L.L.P. Additional clients served include Cisco and several of Silicon Valley’s most prominent VC firms. Stephen’s practice is focused on the identification of leaders for professional services firms and CEO’s for VC firm’s portfolio companies.