Steven Shapiro

Steven Shapiro has designed and executed successful business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing and communications strategies for nearly 20 years, with extensive background in the learning and development and financial services sectors. Steven now applies his experience and his creatively strategic, metrics-based thinking to the clients of Communications Strategy Group (CSG), a company he founded in May 2004.

Steven’s career was primarily steeped in the financial services and learning and development industries. He served as the Vice President of Corporate Communications for Scudder Kemper Investments and Founders Funds after serving as the Assistant Director of Public Relations for the American Stock Exchange. Shapiro started his career as an outside communications consultant for Ernst & Young, Lehman Brothers, Prudential, and Wellington Asset Management.

Just prior to founding CSG, Steven served as Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Jones Knowledge, a holding company for a series of online education companies. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for establishing Jones International University as a recognized pioneer in the online post secondary education; launch Jones e-global library, a comprehensive suite of online library research tools; and position Jones e-education, a learning course management and delivery platform, for dominance in the K-12 market.

Steven received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Emory University.