Steve Vamos

BIO

As the Chief Executive Officer at Xero, Steve leads the global growth and performance of the company. Prior to his current role, Steve held senior executive positions at Apple, IBM and Microsoft and served on the boards of Telstra, Fletcher Building, David Jones and Medibank. Steve also led the growth of online media business ninemsn from start-up to industry leader as the company’s CEO. He is passionate about building great teams and a business culture that supports growth and high performance. In advocating for the importance of building and aligning great talent, Steve founded the Society for Knowledge Economics (SKE), a Not-for-profit think tank which operated from 2005 – 2014, to encourage and promote new, and better leadership and management practices which enable innovation, productivity and sustainability. Steve has an honours degree in civil engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia.