Steven Breihan

I am a native St. Louisan. I grew up in the Sunset Hills area and attended Lake Forest College, located on the North Shore of Chicago. After a year of working as the Assistant to the Dean of Admissions for Lake Forest, I was accepted into the nine-month Management Training Program at Mercantile Bank in St. Louis. At the time, it was an extremely coveted program that was ranked among the top management training programs of all banks in the Midwest, including Chicago. After three years with Mercantile as a corporate real estate lending officer, I decided to get my real estate license and switch careers. I then joined Wallace McNeil Company, a commercial real estate brokerage firm in Clayton, in 1987. Timing was not on my side, due to a downturn in the commercial real estate market in St. Louis at the time. In 1988, I decided to join St. Louis based Maritz, Inc., a national leader in the motivation and incentive industry. I enjoyed six years of traveling the world with Maritz Travel Compa