Before joining GenieTown, Mark held various executive positions at Penguin Computing, most recently VP of sales operations. Before Penguin Computing, Mark was Director of Global Alliances at Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, where he managed a $500M alliance between HP and Philips Electronics, focusing on the convergence of home electronics and consumer computing, and the “powered by Compaq” alliance with Yahoo
Prior to that, Mark was Director of Customer Advocacy at Compaq. Mark spent the formative years of his career in engineering and product management where he was awarded seven patents for fault tolerant computing. He wrote several papers and was a speaker and panelist at various industry forums. Mark holds a BS/EECS from University of California, Berkeley.