In Honolulu, Steven K . Baker is a founding managing member of Palm Cove Capital, LLC (www.palmcovecapital.com), a boutique investment firm focused on high technology business and tax effective opportunities. His other current appointments include being: a member of the Board of Directors of iNetOffice, Inc. (www.iNetWord.com) a software company based in Seattle; a member of the Board of Advisors of Entrepreneurs Foundation of Hawaii (www.efhawaii.org); a member of the Board of the University of Hawaii’s Pacific Asia Center for Entrepreneurship (www.cba.hawaii.edu/resources/pace.cfm); and a member of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Development Committee of Hawaii Pacific University (www.hpu.edu), the largest private university in Hawaii with 10,000 students from all 50 states and over 110 countries.

Previously, Mr. Baker was an executive with Citibank for over 22 years, based in Asia Pacific for the majority of those years. He was a member of the Group of 55, Citicorp’s senior strategy body, and was also designated a Senior Credit Officer for the bank. He was the Division Executive in charge of the Worldwide Securities Services division, with staff in fifty-two countries and a US$600 million dollar revenue base. In 1992, he headed up one of the well-publicized global Task Forces, established by the Chairman, to help turn the bank around. Formerly, he was based in Hong Kong for eight years and was Citibank’s Division Executive for North Asia countries as well as Hong Kong’s Country Corporate Office, and developer with Great Eagle of Citibank’s Plaza’s 50-story towers. Prior to that, he was in Australia as Citicorp’s only Managing Director, where he formally and simultaneously launched five retail branches of the first foreign-owned nationwide bank with Australian Treasurer Paul Keating. His earlier Citibank assignments were in Indonesia, as second in charge, and in New York, as head of the Corporate Real Estate department for major homebuilders and land developers.

After retiring early from Citibank in 1994, he was based in Singapore as the Managing Director of Transmarco Limited, a computer distribution and telecom service company listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore and now controlled by the Sampoerna Group, a billion dollar tobacco group based in Indonesia.

In community and industry affairs, Mr. Baker has served on numerous boards in Asia, North America and Europe. In Hong Kong, he served on a number of Government and other Boards, including the Hong Kong Port Development Board, as appointed by the Governor, the Community Chest, the American Chamber of Commerce, the Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research and was appointed an Advisor to the Student Associations of the top two universities. Until 2005, he was also a member of the Board of Advisors of Round Hill Capital Partners, a Singapore and Tokyo based opportunity fund. Outside Asia, Mr. Baker was a Board member of the National Securities Clearing Corporation in New York and McLaren Cars N.V., based in the U.K. He was also a Participating Member of the Zurich-based International Society of Securities Administrators. More recently, he was a member of the search committee to identify and recommend the taxation director for the new Governor of the state of Hawaii.

Mr. Baker has successfully lobbied in Washington DC on four Asian issues, including leading an effort which resulted in an unprecedented law on U.S. Immigration directed at Hong Kong university-educated citizens, and signed by President Bush in 1990. He has also contributed chapters and articles in several publications published in Hong Kong and in London. Today, in Hawaii, Mr. Baker is a member of Enterprise Honolulu, Hawaii Angels and Hawaii Venture Capital Association.