Steve Paxhia

President, Beacon Hill Strategic Solutions

Steve Paxhia

Steve Paxhia's consulting practice is focused on the strategies and technologies employed by educational institutions and publishing and technology companies. Recently, Steve has served as the senior strategist for the licensed content initiative of the California State University's Digital Marketplace and is advising a number of businesses and universities on the best practices in digital publishing.

He has been involved in the e-book market for over 10 years since he served as Chairman of Rovia -- a start-up that developed secure fully featured e-books for the college market. Steve has considerable experience with custom publishing, licensing of intellectual property, electronic publishing workflow and technology, and EDI. During his 15 years in College Publishing, Steve developed significant experience in Marketing and Sales Management and was the founder of the publishing industry's Pubnet e-commerce and information system that has been deployed in thousands of bookstores across the United States.

Steve is the co-author of comprehensive studies covering Digital Magazines and Newspapers, e-Book Publishing Strategies, and Collaboration and Social Computing.