Steve Robert is the co-founder and CEO of Autobooks, the first fully integrated payments and accounting platform for Small Business - delivered exclusively through financial institutions. Autobooks provides a receivables solution (invoicing & payments) to banks & credit unions similar to how they offer bill-pay today for expense management.
Prior to Autobooks, Steve spent the past 15 years as the technical co-founder & CIO at Billhighway, an enterprise payments platform for large non-profit organizations.In 2009, Billhighway was awarded a $1.1 million dollar mega-credit through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and was recognized as one of Michigan’s 50 Companies to Watch, which celebrates high-performing second-stage businesses. Billhighway went on to become recognized locally and nationally, as one of the best places to work and grew to serve millions of users and processed billions of dollars before being acquired in 2015.
Steve is an accredited investor, adviser and board member whom actively coaches, speaks and writes about start-ups, technology and entrepreneurship. In 2012, he was invited to the White House to be part of the historic signing of the Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act (JOBS) by President Obama through his community involvement with Startup America as a regional leader for Startup Michigan.
Corp! Magazine named Steve an entrepreneur of distinction and a 2009 Michigan top executive and presented his company the 2010 Business of Science and Technology Award for excellence in technology. Lawrence Tech University recognized Steve as a Leader & Innovator in 2011 and Crains Business Detroit recognized Steve as one of Metro Detroit’s Top CIOs in 2012.
