Steven Lee

Steve Lee serves as the CEO of the SkillUp Coalition, a non-profit technology platform whose vision is to end income inequality and intergenerational poverty by connecting vulnerable workers to in-demand careers through comprehensive re-skilling pathways. In Steve’s earlier career, he was a corporate lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers LLP prior to founding and leading an Internet-based educational software company - ThreeToEight - to a successful exit. He subsequently worked at Bain & Company as an Associate Partner, before shifting to the social sector as Managing Director, Economic Security at the Robin Hood Foundation, and later the SkillUp Coalition. Steve is a Mentor at Techstars; a Senior Advisor at the Jain Family Institute, Making Space, and United Way of Greater Philadelphia; and a Board Member at Upsolve, FinTech4Good, and NYN Media. Steve achieved both his BA and JD from Duke University, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.