Steve calls himself a maker ... He makes things.

In 1968, when he was still in high school, Steve invented the first "Surf Leash" to help him transition from being a knee-boarder to a stand-up surfer. The idea took off and he sold more than 10,000 of them in surf shops along the California coast between San Francisco and San Diego.

His next major project was building a 42-foot ferrocement boat which he completed by the age of 23. He then went on to build residential homes in Santa Cruz County,and two more sailboats. The last, and current boat is a 40-foot, self-designed ocean cruiser that he sailed over 28,000 miles -- mostly single-handed to Australia and back.

A self-taught engineer and builder, Steve learned how to envision the whole of a project and divide it into doable pieces. He says at a very early age he “learned how to follow his visions without questions”.

"People should focus on what they’re going to accomplish and not how they’re going to do it," he says, “otherwise the reality police come to dissuade you from accomplishing great things."

He did a five-year stint as a quality assurance manager at Apple Computer before answering the call to build something new. He founded “Wally’s World,” a small amusement park in Hawaii with bumper boats, mini golf, a lunch wagon and an arcade center. In the late 90s he spent four years custom designing and building his third sailboat, which he then sailed for five years to Australia and back.

For Steve, it's an easy process to take a vision and turn it into something real. While it’s been a rather unorthodox education, there are certainly many satisfying careers you can’t study in college. Most recently he’s worked as an IT consultant and engineer, often scrolling online job sites for interesting opportunities. It was there he discovered his latest calling, a better way to connect local skilled contractors with jobs in the neighborhood and this new venture was born. Contact Steve.

Tania provides counsel to clients across multiple industries including: hospitality, financial services, technology and nonprofit.

She has worked with brands such as Best Western International, ARAMARK, Visa International, University of California at Berkeley, Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Spare the Air), Piper Jaffray, Citizens Funds (formally Working Assets) and the Northern California & Silicon Valley Planned Giving Councils.

During the dot com heyday, Tania expanded and managed the Bay Area chapter of Leave a Legacy, the national public awareness campaign to encourage people to remember charitable organizations in their wills and estate plans.

As the Divinity School representative to the Harvard Club of San Francisco, she promotes the Business Across Religious Traditions program, co-sponsored by the Harvard Business and Harvard Divinity Schools, to Bay Area alums.

Tania has been a senior vice president at Allison & Partners since 2003.

With over 10 years working with Unix operating systems, Kevin brings extensive website hardware experience to the team. If the system is up and serving it's because Kevin is working his magic. And he can work his magic from anywhere in the world using absolutely the coolest handheld computer available today...the Nokia 810. Plus...he is lightning fast.

Number 3 at Friendster, Kevin helped launch the first ever social network. As a member of the operations team, he helped lead the transition from a lone NT box to a server farm of over a hundred machines in addition to supporting a fast growing company of 60 people to include Windows and Linux based laptops.

Su has over 25 years of professional experience in graphic design and design management, working with companies such as Netflix, Plantronics, and CTB/McGraw-Hill, as well as numerous smaller clients.

She earned a bachelor's degree in Theater Arts with an emphasis on costume and make-up design from California State University, Los Angeles, where she was introduced to the art of calligraphy. This caused a sudden and complete turn away from her intended career path.

One of her first jobs was making hand-lettered menus, which grew into a passion for logo design. She remembers fondly her first Mac Classic (with the monitor that was just slightly larger than a postage stamp) and, before that, not quite as fondly, the days of real cutting and pasting. Computer-aided graphic design is an ever-changing medium with which she endeavors to keep up.

When she's not channeling the next logo or design project, she's swimming -- lakes, pools, the ocean -- wherever she can be in the water. If you want to contact Su at Su Gatch Graphics, you can email her.