• Serving on the Board of Directors of Quantum Epitaxial Designs, Inc., a high tech wafer manufacturer for the telecommunications industry.
  
  
• Divesting a powder coatings business unit with operations in Europe, the Americas and the Asia/Pacific region for approximately $132,000,000.
  
  
• Acquiring an electronic materials business unit with operations in the United States and the United Kingdom for approximately $21,000,000.
  
  
• Establishing wholly-owned subsidiaries in India, China and Indonesia and entering into or dissolving joint ventures in China, South Korea and Turkey.

• B/EC 452 Business Law
• B/EC 493 Business Strategy and Analysis
• PS 271 Introduction to Law
• PS 381 Constitutional Law

• Licensed Attorney – State of Colorado
• Christian Legal Society
• Christian Business Faculty Association
• Academy of Legal Studies in Business
• Midwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors

Steve is currently pursuing research in topics such as the theology of competition in the context of business strategy, and the legal issues faced by publicly traded companies committed to the Christian concept of business as mission.

Bretsen, Stephen N. “Bringing the Appellate Court to the Classroom.” Christian Business Academy Review 1, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 57-63.

Stephen N. Bretsen, “The Faithful Business as a Publicly Traded Corporation: Testing the Outer Limits of Corporate Law,” The Journal of Biblical Integration in Business, Fall 2006 (forthcoming).

Stephen N. Bretsen and Peter J. Hill, “Irrigation Institutions in the American West,” UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 25:2 (Spring 2007) (accepted subject to revisions).

Stephen N. Bretsen, “’In Competition with Godless Hoards’: Are Some Strategic Approaches More Appropriate for a Faithful Business?,” The Journal of Biblical Integration in Business, Fall 2007 (accepted subject to revisions).

“Constitution Day: A Theatrical Approach” presented at the Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business’ annual conference on March 30, 2007.

Spoke on the business as mission movement and corporate law issues as the featured lunch speaker at a meeting of the northern Illinois chapter of the Christian Legal Society on January 3, 2007.

“In Competition with Godless Hoards: Are Some Strategic Approaches More Appropriate for a Faithful Business?” presented at the Christian Business Faculty Association’s 26th Annual Conference on October 27, 2006.

“Irrigation Institutions of the American West” co-presented with Dr. Peter J. Hill at the International Society for New Institutional Economics’ 10th Annual Conference on September 22, 2006.

“Christianity and Corporations: Exploring the Outer Limits of Corporate Law,” presented at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business’ 81st Annual Conference on August 12, 2006.

“Bringing the Appellate Court to the Classroom” presented at the Second Annual Symposium on the Scholarship of Pedagogy sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area on October 8, 2005.

“Gonzales v. Raich: Exploring the Outer Limits of the Commerce Clause” presented to the northern Illinois chapter of the Christian Legal Society on August 3, 2005.

“Christian Reflections on Contemporary Corporate Scandals” presented as the inaugural address for the William Volkman Chair Of Business And Law at Wheaton College on May 14, 2004.