Steve graduated as a Civil Engineer from Strathclyde University in 1990. Soon after, he joined the British Army as an officer with the Royal Engineers. After a number of operational tours he was team leader of the Royal Engineers bomb disposal teams and Regimental Training Officer.

On leaving the Army he served as a Police Officer, where he was awarded the Baton of Honour before completing his MBA and joining the Hilti Corporation of Switzerland as a Technical Manager. After heading Hilti’s Strategic Marketing team in the UK and Ireland he left in 2009 to join Valent Applications as their Head of Business Development and then Operations Director. In those roles he has worked on a number of CBRN projects and has trained military units and CBRN organisations worldwide. Day to day he tries, with his fellow Director, to run, grow and develop the Valent organisation.