Michael Steed
Michael R. Steed joined the Circadence board of directors in August 1999. He is the founder and managing partner of Paladin Capital Group located in Washington, D.C. Paladin has multiple private equity funds that primarily invest in expansion capital and buy-outs in small- to medium-size worker friendly companies. Paladin’s Homeland Security Fund is focused on companies that have products, services, and technologies that will help prevent, defend, and cope with the immediate aftermath and recovery from terrorist attacks, national disasters, and other inappropriate and criminal activity. They also work with alternative energy companies that reduce dependency on foreign sources of oil and that support distributive power solutions.
Mr. Steed serves as chairman of the Paladin Homeland Security Fund and Paladin III Investment Committees. He is also a member of the Paladin Capital Partners Fund Investment Committee. Mr. Steed provides management oversight of the firm’s operations and investments, and is responsible for the strategic direction of Paladin’s current and future activities. To date, he has completed over 115 direct, co-investment, and fund investments during his career.
Prior to forming Paladin Capital, Mr. Steed served as senior vice president of investments of a major financial services company based in Washington, D.C., and served as president of its SEC-registered investment advisory firm.
From 1981 to 1985, Mr. Steed served as special counsel to the chairman and as the national director of the Democratic Party of the United States of America (DNC). Previously, Mr. Steed engaged in the practice of law, both as a prosecutor in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office and in private practice.
He received a bachelor’s degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and his JD from Loyola Law School.
