• Co-founder of the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation
• Founded both Propel Software and the Infoseek Corporation
• Member of the Ploughshares Fund's Advisory Board
• Donated half a million dollars to support Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign

In 1999 Steven Kirsch co-founded, with his wife Michele, the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation, whose philanthropy places special focus on radical environmentalism and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Mr. Kirsch has a strong background in technology. He has been involved with the Internet since 1972 when, as a high-school student, he worked with the acclaimed "Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf. Kirsch holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He founded Mouse Systems in 1982 and Frame Technology in 1986, the latter of which was eventually acquired by Adobe. He also founded both Propel Software and the Infoseek Corporation; the latter is an Internet navigation service that he sold to the Walt Disney Company in November 1999.

Kirsch serves on several community boards, including that of the Computer History Museum. Perhaps most notably, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Ploughshares Fund, a pro-disarmament, anti-war organization which has given more than $40 million in grants to leftwing groups that openly and invariably condemn American foreign and domestic policies.   

In recognition of his business successes, Red Herring Magazine included Kirsch on its "Top Ten Entrepreneurs 2000" list. Most recently, Forbes Magazine named him to its "Midas List."

Though he is a registered Republican, Kirsch in 2000 gave half a million dollars to support Al Gore's presidential campaign. "I tend to look at the candidates," Kirsch told Worth magazine. "I don't vote strictly on party lines by any stretch. I'm very bipartisan in the way I vote."  With regard to the Florida ballot controversy that resulted in Gore's 2000 election defeat, Kirsch stated that "Gore was the rightful winner of the Florida election."