Steve Calk is a Senior Managing Director and co-General Manager for Alpha IR Group’s New York Office. Steve has more than 20 years of financial, investment banking, and investor relations experience. He advises clients on critical financial and communications strategies around company-shaping events such as M&A, IPOs, investor activism and crises. In his past, Steve was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse, and Lehman Brothers. As a banker, he worked primarily in capital raising and M&A in the TMT and Energy sectors. Later, he served as an investor relations and internal M&A officer with several publicly-traded technology firms. Steve graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy and received his M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.