As head of business development, Steve Brown is responsible for helping drive growth at StarCompliance, with a focus on go-to-market planning, data and vendor partnerships, channel sales, new markets, and mergers and acquisitions. Brown joined Star in April 2021, and brings with him 25 years of experience advising financial firms on regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Star, Brown was director of broker-dealer client services at Compliance Risk Concepts LLC, a senior director at PwC, and head of fixed income and capital markets compliance at U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. Brown began his career at Wachovia, where he was head of Global Investment Banking Compliance and Control Group, and is considered a pioneer in the control room space, having established the bank’s first formal control room function.