Steve Cochrane joined Pitfield Mackay Ross as an investment adviser in 1981 after attending University of Calgary. He joined Levesque Securities in 1986 when Levesque opened its first office in Western Canada. While an investment adviser for Levesque, Cochrane also acted in a corporate finance capacity and was involved in some of the earliest CPCs done on what was then the Alberta Stock Exchange. During his tenure with Levesque and its successor company National Bank Financial, he was involved in numerous IPOs including Wilan and Resverlogix. Cochrane joined Blackmont/Macquarie in 2003. Since 2003, Cochrane has spent a lot of time in Asia and Southeast Asia assisting companies raising funds and listing on the TSX Venture Exchange.