27 Logic is a startup developing applications to improve customer service by using algorithms to prioritize phone calls and service ticket according to customer value to the organization. Top customers are prioritized, problems customers are directed self help.
Real Estate investment and development in Vancouver BC and Oklahoma. Factoring (accounts receivable financing). Venture Capital investments. Oil and Gas and Gold Exploration investment projects. Major gold discoveries made in the Ivory Coast and French Guyana.
CIS, founded by Philip Kurtz, its CEO for 15 years, pioneered electronic transmission of health insurance claims and automation of back office paper work for hospitals and other major health care providers. Steven, as Chairman of the Board, provided the bulk of the working capital during the first 18 months of the startup phase. Working with Pat Garrard the developed the communication strategy, which included the first public use of the term "electronic highway", raised several million dollars, took the Company public, developed long term alliances with major investor groups which eventually resulted in the sale of the Company. CIS shares issued in 1984 were worth $44 in 1999 when the company was taken over.
In 2006 Glamis Gold was taken over for $1.6 Billion USD by Gold Corp. Production grew from 24,000 ounces in 1982 to 620,000 in 2006. The desire to divert the cash flow from gold mining caused a split in the board. The promoter started a proxy fight. Steven was retained to retain control for Chester Millar. Adolf Lundin and his backer, Peter Brown, owner of Canarim (Canaccord) lost. A 13 page " Proxy Fight Fact Sheet" presented the track records. The stock came under heavy selling pressure. Steven was quickly appointed Director and promoter. He traveled across the country to meet with stock brokers and shareholders. Steven helped to raise $8 million working capital which was used to increase gold production. Steven moved Glamis off Vancouver and unto the Toronto Stock and Exchange and unto NASDAQ. Steven's idea that lower costs and quicker permitting in Mexico and South America was adopted by the Board. Chester oversaw exploration and mining operations. Steven kept investors informed and shareholder base grew steadily. Chester pioneered safe heap leaching, (production cost under $200 per ounce) and he had bulk of the family's fortune invested in Glamis. Winning the proxy fight preserved Chester's control, and everyone's investment. The victory for Chester was a victory for all the shareholders. There would not have been the $1.6Billion USD takeover in 2006 without Steven. Steven left in 1984 to became the Chairman of CIS Technologies where working with CIS's founder, another huge win was created for shareholders.
The Capitalist Reporter, later called Free Enterprise grew from 0 to 500,000 paid circulation due to the genius of its founder and editor Pat Garrard and Steven's ability to build an organization from scratch to handle all the operational facets of the magazine publishing business. Steven joined when the subscription list was 15,000 and the first issue was not yet written and was a month late. With all the business handled by Steven Pat was able to produce the first issue, which like all following issues was loved by readers and advertisers. Steven managed direct mail campaigns of one million pieces. Studs Terkel showed up one day to do an interview, and the receptionist brought him to me. I did not know who he was, but he included my story in his best seller, "Working". After the magazine was sold Pat went unto fame as writing shareholder relations copy. Steven and Pat reconnected at CIS Technologies where Pat's work provided the foundation for the fund raising and after market success. Building a team from the eclectic mix of New York City population, that is able to work together to a common goal with a deadline laid the foundation for building teams to run exploration, mining, and high tech companies. Pat and Steven are again working together to help MS patients and to launch the world's biggest oil sands development.
The market failure of curative drugs in the pharmaceutical industry is the chain that restrains patients of debilitating diseases. The need for a locksmith - a results-oriented third party - became evident to Steven after doctors diagnosed his wife, Ruth, with Multiple Sclerosis. In 2010, he founded The Reformed Multiple Sclerosis Society, a 501-c-3 charity, with three mandates: 1) to inform, empower and help patients with MS and other degenerative diseases, 2) to fund pioneering research that is ignored by pharmaceuticals, governments and other non-profits, and 3) to publicize potentially lifesaving treatments. Through the twenty case studies on the RMSS YouTube channel, thousands of patients have benefited by learning about and locating experimental treatments to reclaim their lives. In previous years, the charity focused on CCSVI venoplasty (simple day surgery) and stem cell therapy (patients' own cells, re-injected non-invasively). We are now expanding our funding to research for antibiotic treatment for CPn/MS. The bulk of the funding has been provided by the directors, with Steven working as CEO without pay since inception.
Steven purchased PICS Smartcard Inc. in 1996 and transformed it into the twenty-first-century leader of professional services in the security area. As an IBM Business Partner, PICS also operates online as IDSuperstore.com to provide ID card printers, supplies and services in Canada and the United States.
Primary interest is building our business and using the profits to help those who suffer from untreatable diseases such as MS, AlS, Parkingsons and empowering them to participate in early stage but promising clinical trials.
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