Steve Glenn

CEO, Founder, and Chair of the Board, Plant Prefab

Steve founded Plant Prefab in 2016 as an offshoot of the award-winning residential design studio, LivingHomes, which he founded in 2006.

Prior to Plant and LivingHomes Steve worked with the William Jefferson Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) and managed the development of a $220 million program in Mozambique, the organization’s first in Africa. This charitable work followed 15 years in tech, including founding and serving as Chairman and CEO of PeopleLink, a leading provider of enterprise e-community solutions. During Steve's tenure, the company raised $35 million in investment capital from AT&T Ventures, GE, Goldman Sachs, idealab and others.

Steve was also a founding partner of idealab, a business incubation firm that raised $1 billion and founded or invested in a number of successful companies including GoTo/Overture (OVER), NetZero/United Online (UNTD), CitySearch (TMCS), Tickets.com (TKTS), eToys, and CarsDirect. Prior to founding idealab Steve served as co-director of the Virtual Reality Studio at Walt Disney Imagineering. He also co-founded Clearview Software, which was sold to Apple, where Steve subsequently served as a marketing specialist.

Steve is co-founder of the Kaia Parker Dance Endowment, and a co-founder and former board member of Hope Street Group and the Brown University Entrepreneur Forum. He has also served as a judge for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.