Steve Bryant
Steve Bryant serves as the Executive Director of the Gayle and Bill Cook Center for Entrepreneurship at Ivy Tech Community College and also serves as the Regional Director for the South-Central Small Business Development Center (SBDC).
Steve’s role is to support the growth of a strong small business ecosystem in South Central Indiana. Steve and his team of advisors from the Cook Center and SBDC work to help start and grow businesses in a 10-county region along the I69 corridor as well as support students from Ivy Tech’s Entrepreneurship Program who are looking to start or grow their business in the area.
Steve has previously held positions within government, not-for-profits, life sciences industry and higher education. Steve served as the Business Development & Marketing Manager for BioConvergence (now Singota Solutions), a small life sciences business in Bloomington, the founding Director of the Bloomington Life Sciences Partnership, Vice President of the Indiana Health Industry Forum, owned a small consulting business and was an aide to US Senators Richard G. Lugar and Dan Coats.
Steve’s professional career is experienced in program development, strategic management, communications, marketing, business development, and government relations. Steve has a BS in Political Science from Indiana University and a Masters in Business Administration from WGU Indiana.