Board of Directors

Univicity Board of Directors

Dr Christopher Pitt (CP) is World Vision International’s Senior Vice President for Organisational Effectiveness. He holds a BA (Hons) in Politics and Philosophy, a Phd in business strategy and ethics from Cambridge University and is a Chartered Civil Engineer. Chris has had a varied career in business with experience in corporate strategy and re-engineering, corporate governance, micro finance, economic regeneration, and has raised significant equity and venture capital for major projects and micro finance institutions. He is a retired British Air Force Colonel and has been the CEO of various companies. Chris is a visiting lecturer at several universities and has published books and articles on business ethics, project and project portfolio management, micro-finance, business re-engineering and corporate governance and strategy.

A past member of the UNHCR Steering Committee, he currently serves as a director on several commercial boards and the boards of various charities and non-profit organizations. He is a fellow of Institute of Directors, the Institute of Project Managers, the Institute of Managers and the Institute of Chartered Engineers. He is a member of the Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Cost Management Accounting. He was World Vision International’s Middle East & European director of operations, director for micro economic development and the national director for World Vision Romania where he hosted the organisations 2004 Triennial Council. Chris moved to World Vision International’s California headquarters in January 2005 to lead the organizations’ re-engineering and culture change project. He was appointed the SVP for Organisational Effectiveness in January 2007. He currently lives with his wife Marina who is Russian in Pasadena CA.

Steeve Kay
Co-Founder, Univicity, L3C
Founder, QTC Management

Steeve Kay is a global enterprise thinker and a successful entrepreneur technologist. He co-founded QTC Management in 1981 and, as its President and CEO, developed the company to become the leading provider of web-based medical disability evaluation services to America’s $400 billion-a-year disability benefit industry. In 2005, QTC was sold in a leveraged buyout.

Prior to QTC, Mr. Kay spent 15 years in the high tech industry working for four semi-conductor companies (Avantex, Siliconics, Fairchild Semi-Conductors and Hughes Aircraft Co.) in California’s Silicon Valley, the birthplace of the information revolution. He was credited with the successful redesign and commercial delivery of the world’s first solid-state MOS (metal oxide semiconductor) power transistor. The MOS power transistor is at the heart of the power supplies used in desktop PCs (personal computers), audio systems and many industrial applications. Mr. Kay also shared a patent for a new semiconductor process.

Currently, Mr. Kay spends his time as an investor, enterprise thinker and philanthropist. He is the President of LBS Investments, Executive Director of Kay’s Institute of Thinking, and Chairman of Kay Family Foundation. Mr. Kay is also the founder of Kay Center for E-Health Research operated by the School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University in Southern California, USA.

For his works, Mr. Kay was awarded “Entrepreneur of the Year in Technology” by Ernst and Young in 2003 and “Faithfulness and Excellence” by Concordia University in 2006. He sits on the Boards of various non-profit organizations. Academically, Mr. Kay obtained his Masters degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from Stanford University and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Pepperdine University.

Steeve Kay also serves as the acting President for Univicity.

Mark Smith is the co-founder of Univicity

Following a 7-year career in IT management with Focus on the Family, Mark became the founder and editorial director of Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro), the leading publication for IT administrators using Windows NT/2003 server. Windows NT Magazine as distributed in 160 countries in 13 languages. The magazine was sold to Penton Media in September, 2000. Mark ran the IT division of Penton Media until September, 2002. Mark was the keynote speaker for Microsoft & HP on enterprise storage.

Mark Smith also serves as the VP of Partnerships for Univicity.

You can contact Mark at: msmith@univicity.com