Steve joined Allan Candy in September 2007 after leading the highly successful divestiture of the Allan Candy business from Cadbury Adams Canada. As President and Chief Executive Officer, Steve provides overall leadership and vision in determining the strategic direction of The Allan Candy Company, and in developing the tactics and business plans necessary to realize revenue and earnings growth, and to increase overall enterprise value.

Steve’s responsibilities include ensuring that strategic and business plans are effectively implemented, that the results are monitored and reported to the Board, and that financial and operational objectives are attained.

A Canadian, Steve started his career with Molson Breweries Ltd. in Sales in 1992, before completing his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in 1997, at the Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands. Since that time, Steve has held progressively more senior roles with Celestica Ltd., KPMG Consulting LLP, and BearingPoint LLP before joining Cadbury Adams Canada’s Executive Team in 2004.

While at Cadbury Adams, Steve led a number of regional and local strategic initiatives, most notably the highly successful Canadian Business Transformation (post-merger integration of Cadbury and Adams) which transitioned the newly consolidated Cadbury Adams business off of independent, legacy support systems and infrastructure.