Steve Richards

Steve Richards has 18 years of professional services and software experience. He has overall responsibility for financial management, legal and administrative functions.

Before joining Awareness Steve was CFO of ClearForest where he helped them become the world leader in business solutions enabled by Text Analytics. Clearforest was sold to Reuters in April 2007.

Prior to joining ClearForest, Steve was VP of Operations & CFO of netNumina, purchased by Keane in March 2005, helping the firm to achieve Inc. 500 status in 2002 as the 182nd fastest growing private company in the country. Richards was also CFO of Tessera Enterprise Systems, Inc., purchased by iXL in January 2000. Steve played an integral role in building the company to $40 million in revenues and spearheaded the launching operations in San Francisco, Chicago, Munich, and London.

Before joining Tessera, he had a five-year tenure at Sybase serving as Senior Financial Manager of the Worldwide Professional Services Division, which grew from $25 to $235 million in revenues during his period of service, and was extensively involved in the business operations including the launch of numerous new offices as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Steve has a B.A. in Economics and an MBA in Finance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.