Since 2010, Steven Marshall has been serving as the chief executive officer of Altiras, a company based in Houston, Texas, which he has led to a growth of 600 percent in a span of just five years. When not busy with his responsibilities at Altiras, Steven Marshall enjoys listening to music and cites Pearl Jam as his favorite band.
Formed in 1990 in Seattle, Washington, Pearl Jam was one of the most popular American rock bands of the '90s. Early in their career they had been at the forefront of the grunge subgenre. They retained this status until they released their 4th studio album, No Code.
No Code, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, was regarded by industry commentators as an anti-grunge project and definitively marked the end of an era for the band. In a 1997 interview, Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder admitted that they thought that grunge was out of hand and was no longer about the music. At the time, grunge fans suffered a number of blows due to the deaths of several of the genre's key icons, particularly Kurt Cobain. Critics noted that No Code, instead of trying to respond to these events with the darkness of grunge music, aimed to heal the wounds of the '90s with music that was uplifting and meditative.
