Steve Schlossstein is an internationally recognized strategy consultant and acclaimed author with extensive experience in global markets, trend analysis and strategic planning. He has particular professional expertise in the Far East business and commercial markets, most notably Japan.

Mr. Schlossstein is the accomplished author of a dozen books. He wrote the highly acclaimed The End of the American Century (1989) and Trade War “Greed, Power, and Industrial Policy on Opposite Sides of the Pacific”), an American Library Association “Best Business Book” of 1984 and a bestseller in the Japanese edition. He has written two novels dealing with the business environment and social change in Japan: Kensei (“The Sword Master,” his first novel, in 1983, also a bestseller in the Avon paperback edition), and Yakuza (“The Japanese Godfather,” in 1990).

His fifth book, Asia's New Little Dragons (“The Dynamic Emergence of Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia”), was published in 1991. After Japan’s “Lost Decade,” his sixth book appeared in 2002. Titled The Jiangxi Virus, it was a novel of bioterror featuring a rogue colonel in the Chinese Army who threatens the United States with a lethal virus, published shortly before SARS dominated front-page headlines. In 2004, he released a cyberspace thriller set in New York City – the first in the Peter Dawkins mystery series – that dealt with the Russian Mafia and Internet fraud titled crime.com. In 2005, he completed a contrarian non-fiction work about Islam’s lagging economic potential titled Endangered Species: Why Muslim Economies Fail, which contains lessons for the Middle East from East Asia’s dynamic transformation.

In 2007, he wrote Dreams Denied, a historical novel about the inside story of Reconstruction, set in Charleston, S.C., in 1866. In 2009, he published The Black Widow, the second in the Peter Dawkins series, a novel about the mysterious murder of a charismatic black politician. His newest book (and seventh novel), released in late 2010, is Do Unto Others, the third Peter Dawkins mystery, which opens with murder on the deadly intersection of American politics and religion. Planned for 2011 is the first book he will write and publish in Tokyo, in Japanese: 城石放送協会 (Shiroishi Housou Kyoukai), subtitled 外人の目で見た日本 (Japan through a Foreigner’s Eyes), a collection of 50 short essays about his half-century involvement with Japan. His columns and articles have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Trenton Times, Business Tokyo, and International Economy.

Since 1982, as founder and president of his strategic consulting firm, SBS Associates, Inc., he has designed, negotiated, and implemented numerous strategic assignments for U. S. corporate institutions in the Far East. He has particular expertise in the dynamic East Asian markets, from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan in northeast Asia to Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia in southeast Asia, as well as in some of the advanced economies of Europe. In his role as strategy consultant over the years, Mr. Schlossstein’s clients have included such Fortune 1000 companies as Texas Instruments, DuPont, Citibank, and the RCA Corporation’s David Sarnoff Research Center.

As Sarnoff’s Senior Advisor, International, with authority and responsibility for its global business, he quadrupled its foreign contracts during his recent 5-year consulting assignment there, establishing relationships with major East Asian electronics firms such as Sharp and Sony (Japan), Daewoo and LG Electronics (Korea), and TSMC (Taiwan). In 1995, he was also co-founder, President and CEO of the Interactive Health Network, Inc. [HealthNet], a joint venture with Sarnoff that pioneered a working prototype for enhanced medical and health content in digital video format targeted at newly-emerging interactive television (ITV) systems. Mr. Schlossstein has managed a wide range of projects in solid-state technologies, computing, information systems, advanced display systems, IC technologies, and the Internet. He was profiled in a special issue of Fortune magazine in August 1991 as one of “25 Americans who help the US win,” and was featured in a lengthy review of interactive technology in The New York Times on September 7, 1994.

From 1969 to 1982, Mr. Schlossstein was an executive with J. P. Morgan & Co. of New York, with assignments in New York 1969-71; in Hong Kong as representative 1971-72; in Tokyo, from 1973-77 as vice president for corporate business development with responsibility for many of Japan’s leading corporations; and in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 1977-80 as vice president and general manager. Back in New York from 1980-82, he was vice president of Morgan's merger and acquisition department responsible for new business in East Asia, having achieved some of the first acquisitions ever by Japanese firms in the U.S. market at that time.

Born in 1941, Mr. Schlossstein received a B.A. in history and philosophy from Austin College in 1963; he was its distinguished alumnus in 1990. He did graduate work at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, 1964-66, including Japanese language study under Prof. Hisaharu Kugimoto of Tokyo University, finishing his Master’s work in Japanese history. In 1984, he completed the Advanced Management Program at Columbia Business School. He speaks and reads fluent Japanese and German, and recently passed the Foreign Service Institute’s Advanced Course in French (Niveau Supérieur 2).

Steve resides in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife, Martha; they are parents of two adopted Korean children, Claire (27) and Peter (26). He is a former member of the Princeton Public School Board; a past candidate for the New Jersey State Legislature; a former board member of the Advisory Council of the Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University; a past board member of the Princeton Public Library Foundation and a charter member of its Expansion Committee; a former benefactor of the Manhattan Institute in New York; a benefactor and former Board Member of the Mercer Street Friends Center in Trenton, New Jersey; a past Leadership Council Member of the Princeton Medical Center Foundation; a benefactor of Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children in New York; a benefactor of the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute in support of its genetically-attenuated sporozoite vaccine for malaria; a member of the Hopewell Valley Golf Club; and a member of the University Club of New York City, a National Landmark that has the nation’s largest private library collection.