biography
Stephen M. Wolf joined BYRON LEONARD INTERNATIONAL as a principal in 1987. Prior to establishing his own search firm MONTENIDO ASSOCIATES in the mid 1980's, Steve was associated with established national retained search firms in their Los Angeles offices. He and his partners established an outplacement counseling arm at BLI called Career Action Network.
He has a varied search practice covering most business functions in a variety of industries. He has conducted over 300 searches and his clients range from high technology "dot com" start-ups to multibillion dollar publishers. In the most recent years his practice has focused on for profit proprietary education firms where he has conducted over 50 searches including over a dozen Campus Presidents.
Steve’s fifteen years of business experience prior to becoming an executive recruiter includes management in the computing, data services and professional services industries. As a Vice President with the JIA Management Group, he established the business development function and later managed a start-up division specializing in client server site management. Prior positions include marketing and management roles with IBM, Control Data Corporation and CompuServe. Steve served four years as an officer with the U.S Air Force System Command.
Steve earned both a B.A. in Economics and an M.B.A. in Finance from UCLA.
He has served on the Board of Directors for the Southern California Technology Council's chapter for the Central Coast. He is the past President and member of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Corporation for the Sigma Nu Fraternity at UCLA and has served on the Alumni Board for the Anderson School of Business at UCLA.