Steve Vonder Haar is research director of Interactive Media Strategies and is responsible for tracking uses of online audio and video in fields ranging from enterprise streaming media to video-on-demand services.

Prior to launching Interactive Media Strategies, Vonder Haar served as director of The Yankee Group's Media and Entertainment Strategies unit. In that role, Vonder Haar managed the Yankee unit focusing on the platforms, access services and user applications that make next-generation entertainment services possible. Areas of coverage under Vonder Haar's direction included multi-channel video services, high-speed Internet applications, telco video strategies, digital television, interactive television, set-top devices, T-Commerce and other topics related to the growing market for digital services.

From 1995 to 2000, Vonder Haar worked as a senior writer for the trade publication Interactive Week, covering Web media, advertising, and electronic commerce. Previously, he also worked as technology reporter on the business desk of the Fort Worth Star Telegram from 1990 to 1995, and as a technology reporter for both the Dallas Times Herald (1989-1990) and Dallas Business Journal (1987-1989.

Vonder Haar holds Bachelors Degrees in journalism and economics from the University of Missouri. He completed his Masters of Business Administration in finance from the University of Texas-Arlington in 1998.