Steve Potash

Stephen J. Potash is Chairman of Potash & Company, a public relations and association-management firm that exclusively serves clients engaged in global commerce.

He is also a founding member of the Board of Directors of the California-Asia Business Council (Cal-Asia), a non-profit business association promoting expanded commercial ties between California and the markets of China and Southeast Asia. Cal-Asia members include some of California's largest multinational corporations.

Steve has served as a public relations consultant to APL continuously for nearly 25 years (since 1979), except for the period 1987-90. During those three years, he served in-house as Vice President, Corporate Communications, for the then-$2 billion, publicly-traded (NYSE) company.

(APL's roots in California, through its predecessor, the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company, date to 1848-49. In 1867, Pacific Mail launched the first regular trans-Pacific steamship service linking the United States with China and Japan. Its ships were the principal means of transport to California for Chinese and Japanese immigrants of that period.)

Steve is a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, California, majoring in International Relations. His interests include Chinese Export Silver (objects made in China in the 18th and 19th centuries for use in China by resident Western trading company officials, diplomats, and also commissioned by sea captains). Other interests include 19th Century paintings and original lithographs depicting the ships of the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company and the Chinese immigrants to America.

To e-mail Steve Potash:
steve@PotashCo.com