Steve Bennett is vice president of Kirby Partners and has been with the company for nine years. His career background includes nearly 25 years with regional and national advertising agencies. Steve owned an advertising firm for five years, has been a newspaper reporter, publisher of a medical magazine for physicians, and college instructor in public speaking and mass communication. He was co-author of the book “Marketing I.T.: Marketing Strategies and Case Studies in the Healthcare Environment,” which won the 2010 CHIME Collaboration Award. Steve has a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Mich.; and a Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.