Steve Elefant, a point-of-sale (POS) payments and security expert with more than 30 years experience in start-up business ventures, public companies and electronic commerce. Among Steves 7 startups he was a Founding Venture Partner at Claremont Creek Ventures and most recently was the CIO (functionally COO) at Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE:HPY). Steve currently is Managing Director of Soaring Ventures and a Senior Strategic Consultant at Google.