Steeve Kay
Executive Director, Tee Hub
Executive Director, Kinnovation Alliance
Founder, QTC Management
Steeve Kay is a global thinker and an enterprise technologist. He co-founded QTC Management in 1981 and, as its President and CEO, developed the company to become the leading provider of web-based medical disability evaluation (MDE) services to America’s $400 billion-a-year disability benefit industry. In 2005, QTC was sold in a leveraged buyout.
Prior to QTC, Mr. Kay spent 15 years in the high tech industry working for four semi-conductor companies (Avantex, Siliconics, Fairchild Semi-Conductors and Hughes Aircraft Co.) in California’s Silicon Valley, the birthplace of the information revolution. He was credited with the successful redesign and commercial delivery of the world’s first solid-state MOS (metal oxide semiconductor) power transistor. The MOS power transistor is at the heart of the power supplies used in desktop PCs (personal computers), audio systems and many industrial applications. Mr. Kay also shared a patent for a new semiconductor process.
Currently, Mr. Kay spends his time as an investor, enterprise thinker and philanthropist. He is the Executive Director of Tee Hub, Executive Director of Kay’s Institute of Thinking, and Chairman of Kay Family Foundation. Mr. Kay holds board level positions in various non-profit organizations. He was appointed as a trustee of the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), the Executive Director of Kinnovation Alliance in Irvine, California and founder of Kay Center for E-Health Research operated by the School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University in Southern California, USA.
For his works, Mr. Kay was awarded “Entrepreneur of the Year in Technology” by Ernst and Young in 2003 and “Faithfulness and Excellence” by Concordia University in 2006. Academically, Mr. Kay obtained his Masters degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from Stanford University and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Pepperdine University.
