Steven L. Schneider

Mr. Schneider has more than 35 years of management, operational, and investment experience, including serving as CEO and Director of several companies across numerous sectors. Mr. Schneider brings a depth of CEO level experience in large, multi-national companies, as well as start-up and high growth businesses. In combination with this leadership experience, Mr. Schneider brings extensive private equity investment and oil & gas industry experience, particularly in the shale oil regions of the US. In addition to being a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Starboard Tack Capital, Mr. Schneider also serves as a senior executive or Director for a number of Starboard Tack’s portfolio companies, including BPI Midstream a midstream saltwater disposal company in North Dakota; Dakota Oil Processing, a company developing a 20,000 barrel per day diesel refinery in North Dakota. Mr. Schneider previously served as CEO and a member of the board of directors of AcuStream, LLC, a provider of web-based revenue cycle solutions for the healthcare market. He also previously served as Chairman and CEO of Ilumin Software Services, Inc. (2001-2006), where he oversaw the transformation of the Company from a start-up to a market leading provider of email compliance, archiving and litigation support applications. In October 2005, under Steve’s leadership, Ilumin was sold to Computer Associates (NYSE:CA). Prior to Ilumin, Steve served as the President and CEO of the $400 million Financial Information Division of Primark/Disclosure (now part of Thomson Financial). While there (from 1992-2000), he played a key role in transforming it into a global financial products and services company, managing multiple acquisitions and divestitures. Steve received an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Detroit and a B.B.A. in Finance from Notre Dame.