Steve Antill

Chief Revenue Officer Foundation Software

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Steve Antill is Chief Revenue Officer of Foundation Software, the Strongsville, Ohio developer of construction accounting and payroll software that Thoma Bravo acquired in 2020. He is responsible for strategic market planning, revenue and new business growth, and merger and acquisition activity across Foundation Software and its sister businesses Payroll4Construction, McCormick Estimating and Estimating Edge. He has spent his entire career at the company, joining in 1999 as a student and working up through support, training, regional sales and sales leadership to the executive team.

Career Highlights

• Chief Revenue Officer of Foundation Software, a title the company has used for him since at least February 2021.
• Appointed vice president of business development in December 2017, taking on strategic market planning and new business development for Foundation and Payroll4Construction while continuing as director of sales.
• Returned to the Cleveland-area headquarters as director of sales in 2011.
• Launched and led Foundation’s West Coast office for more than nine years as one of its first regional sales managers, building California into one of the company’s largest regions.
• Company spokesman on the acquisition of McCormick Systems, Foundation’s first move into construction estimating.

Professional Journey

Antill joined Foundation Software in 1999 while studying marketing at the University of Akron. The company, founded by Fred Ode in 1985, builds job cost accounting software for specialty contractors, and Antill learned the product from the ground up as a client support representative and field trainer before moving into sales.

He became one of the company’s first regional sales managers and launched its West Coast operation from California, running that office for more than nine years. According to the company, the region became one of its largest. He returned to headquarters in 2011 as director of sales.

In December 2017 Foundation announced his appointment as vice president of business development. He kept the director of sales role and took on strategic market planning and new business development for both Foundation and its sister company Payroll4Construction. In the announcement, Fred Ode, then CEO, said Antill would help “form the bridge to the future of our company” and mentor the next generation of leaders.

Thoma Bravo agreed to acquire Foundation Software in August 2020 and completed the deal on 31 August 2020, with Mike Ode as CEO. By February 2021 the company was calling Antill its chief revenue officer. Acquisitions followed. The McCormick Systems deal took Foundation into estimating and digital takeoff for electrical and mechanical contractors, and Antill said at the time that “we’ve never stepped into estimating before.” Estimating Edge was added in January 2022, followed by AboutTime Technologies, Vendrix and the safety software provider Harness, which was relaunched as SafetyHQ.

His current biography describes a role that combines revenue leadership with M&A. It also puts much of his time into relationships with technology partners, accounting firms, associations and contractors, and into connecting the company’s sales, marketing and product teams. The company credits him with leading more than 1,000 software selections and implementations and attending more than 300 industry conferences.

Education

Foundation Software says he joined the company in 1999 while studying marketing at the University of Akron. No source states that he completed a degree, so none is recorded.