As Senior Vice President and Managing Director of MediaVest’s multicultural marketing unit MV42°, Steven Wolfe Pereira leads holistic multicultural media and communications planning for the agency. He is responsible for strategy, cross-platform marketing initiatives and branded entertainment, and works with world-class brands such as Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coca-Cola, Kraft, Post Foods and Wal-Mart.

Prior to MediaVest, Steven served as Vice President of Partnership Marketing at Univision Communications Inc. Earlier in his career, Steven was a Portfolio Manager overseeing technology investments at multi-strategy investment fund Platinum Partners and held senior management positions at Akamai Technologies, Experian Digital and Visual Sciences. He contributed across multiple functions including business development, corporate strategy, engineering, finance and product marketing.

Steven also worked in investment banking and private equity, at The Blackstone Group, Salomon Smith Barney (Citigroup) and Violy, Byorum & Partners. Specializing in the technology, media & telecommunications industries, he performed corporate restructurings, debt and equity financings, and mergers and acquisitions advisory work.

A passionate supporter of Hispanic community issues as well as science, technology, engineering and math education, Steven serves on the board of directors of the Claudio Reyna Foundation (CRF), the Council of Urban Professionals (CUP), the Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring (DREAM) Project, Excelencia in Education, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) and the Tufts University Communications and Media Studies (CMS) program.

Steven graduated Cum Laude from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations. A Fulbright Scholar, he attended the Greater Boston Executive MBA Program at the MIT’s Sloan School of Management.