Steve Glover

As President and Head of Compugen Finance, a subsidiary of Compugen, Steve manages a team of leasing and asset disposition specialists across Canada. This includes: setting up customers’ leases, overseeing the logistics and operations of reselling or recycling used IT equipment, and ensuring data security on all machines that pass through the Compugen warehouse.

Steve started his career in IT in 1974 as a peripheral operator for Royal Bank, where he mounted tapes on tape drives and printer paper on printers in their nascent data centre. He remembers the mainframe computers were enormous, the size of half a small train, and the peripherals were the size of a fridge.

Since then, he has held executive positions at a number of leasing companies and was the owner of CDI Computer Dealers, which he sold just prior to joining Compugen in 2007.

In 2012, Steve was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal for his volunteer work with the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness, a non-profit that focuses on providing support to victims of abuse.

Steve is an amateur musician and plays keyboard and guitar in a pick-up band with his son. Recently they have been playing cover tunes of Crosby Stills & Nash and the Beatles.