As a teenager in 1996 Steve McIntosh founded World Choice Travel on the bet that travel booking was about to move online. Eight years later he sold the 250-employee business to Travelocity for $50 million. In 2002 he founded BeQuick Software; in 2022 he sold that one to Banyan Software. In 2024, with his lifelong friends Gabe Neeriemer and Edward Skrod, he founded Nighthawk Management Group and the Nighthawk Momentum Fund — a Delaware-based 506(b) / 3(c)(1) private investment vehicle limited to qualified investors. The fund's first verifiable real-money track record is the USIC 2025 audit: +70% in the MMVR $1M+ Stock Division.

By Q1 2026 he was up +23.9% in the same division, sitting second behind Ron Bagley's +26.7% and ahead of Jason Speziale's +20.5% — the tightest MMVR $1M+ podium on record by a comfortable margin. McIntosh holds a finance degree summa cum laude from the University of Florida (minors in economics and statistics) and lists more than thirty years of investing experience across qualified and non-qualified accounts. The Nighthawk Momentum Fund's structural pitch — open-ended, dual-entity, qualified-investor-only — reads as the institutional follow-through on what the USIC audit demonstrates publicly.

The Nighthawk fund site is the public surface for outreach; no individual X / LinkedIn under his name has been surfaced. The two-exit founder backstory makes him one of the more press-friendly profiles on the 2026 leaderboard for the championship's stated allocator-pipeline positioning.