Steve G. Steinberg

Steve G. Steinberg (steve at steinberg.org), principal of Steinberg Consulting, is currently retained by a New York investment firm where he acts as a technology trend-spotter. He also founded and led the fund’s quantitative research group, created their online portfolio system, and assisted on many other projects. Mr. Steinberg graduated from UC Berkeley with a master’s degree in computer science and worked as an embedded software developer in Santa Barbara and Tokyo. He has extensive experience in computer security, from membership in the notoriously exclusive Legion of Doom as a teenager, to founding the penetration testing lab at a “big-four” consulting firm in 1992. Steve has also written about technology for the Los Angeles Times, The Industry Standard, and Wired, including the seminal “Netheads vs. Bellheads” essay (Wired 4.10, 1996).