Steve Raymond has been an LASVP Partner since January 2005. Steve is VP of the Strategic Partnerships Group at Social Project, Inc., which provides social media technology and platform tools to the entertainment industry under the Flux brand. Prior to joining Social Project, Steve was Sr. Director of Business Development for the Yahoo! Entertainment Group, creating and overseeing Yahoo’s alliances with technology partners, major brands, retailers and consumer electronics companies. He joined Yahoo! via their acquisition of Musicmatch, where he was VP of Business Development for the San Diego based pioneer in the digital-jukebox-software category, overseeing and implementing their channel marketing and technology alliance strategies. Steve also served as Director of Business Development for Relegence (acquired by AOL), a boutique technology start-up that delivers real-time information technology to the financial industry.