Mark comes to MarketLive as a senior executive with significant experience in operations, finance, eCommerce strategy and application development. Before joining MarketLive, Mark led application development and management consulting firm Pinnacle Rock Associates through a steep and rapid growth in annual revenue, resulting in the sale of the company to a major eCommerce development firm. Prior to Pinnacle Rock, Mark was Executive Vice President in charge of the western region for marchFIRST. Mark led this approximately 1000-employee organization in creating eCommerce businesses for companies such as JC Penney, Williams-Sonoma, Adidas, American Airlines, Mazda of America, and The SABRE Group. In a previous position, Mark was responsible for marchFIRST's global management consulting practice. Before joining marchFIRST, Mark was a Partner at Prophet Brand Strategy in San Francisco, where he led Internet and brand strategy engagements for clients including Levi Strauss & Co., The SABRE Group, Discovery Channel, and Williams-Sonoma. Mark also spent three years with Accenture's Strategic Services working with clients such as Nike, Starbucks, Levi's, and Cisco Systems. Before beginning the consulting phase of his career, Mark was a Group Operations Executive with Procter and Gamble. Additionally, Mark is the founder of Archetype-Solutions, a software company providing mass-customization outsourcing for the apparel market. Mark received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and an MBA from St. Mary's College.