Billy Gonzalez Email Address

Chief of Staff

DeviantArt is an online artwork, videography and photography community, headquartered in California, United States.

Steven Gonzalez is a senior vice president of business operations and corporate development at Deviant Art, the world’s largest online creative community for artists and art enthusiasts. Deviant Art boasts more than 66 million unique visitors a month, generates 2 billion page-views and its members submit more than 180,000 unique pieces of UGC daily, across hundreds of genres. The site has over 35 million registered member accounts.In his role at deviantART, Steven's primary responsibilities are managing day-to-day business operations, including leadership of Finance/Accounting and Org Design/HR. Steven is the primary execution executive on major corporate and business development initiatives and partners with the CEO and the Executive Team on the development and implication of general corporate strategy.Steven is an experienced senior management executive skilled in developing, planning and executing strategic corporate initiatives in the areas of finance, business operations and corporate/business development. A former investment banker turned operator, Steven has extensive roots in traditional financing activities including leading capital-raising projects as well as managing merger and acquisition transactions.Prior to deviantART, Steven held roles as a corporate finance analyst and associate at several mid-market focused investment banks, including Cascadia Capital, Meridian Capital and Volpe Brown Whelan.Steven is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and received a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Trinity College. He received his M.B.A. from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.