Brian Steel

Brian Steel is Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Hypatia. He is responsible for Hypatia’s strategic partnerships and innovation pipeline. Brian has 30 years of executive and board-level roles, from venture-backed technology start-ups to public corporations. He specializes in commercializing information technologies and cleantech, with successful IPOs, exits and international growth in search, advertising, media and cloud AI.

In the information technology sector, Brian has led international scale-outs for D2C and B2B platforms that leverage advanced data engineering and artificial intelligence for consumer personalization, advertising optimization and online search, from Pandora to Yahoo!. He currently leads Hypatia’s Joint Venture Partnership Program with the U.S. Department of Commerce National Technical Information Service (NTIS) for data innovation, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. In the clean technology sector, Brian has worked directly on the commercialization of more than 45 leading-edge ventures within an innovation ecosystem that includes Fortune 500, leading universities, entrepreneurs and national labs of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), to include the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).