Mark recently co-founded LongLeaf Studios in RTP, NC after founding Cambridge, MA based SeaAhead, Inc., one of the first US venture platforms focused on bluetech.
Mark had been a Senior Vice-President at GE Energy Financial Services and led the effort to stand-up GE’s cleantech corporate venture capital (CVC) efforts. GE’s cleantech CVC investment mandate included renewable energy, the H2 economy, energy storage and emission control technologies. Mark led GE’s Series C, pre-revenue investment in A123, the MIT li-ion battery spin-out which IPO’d in 2009. After GE, Mark was a co-founding partner in Novus Energy Partners (NEP), a 2008 vintage US-European cleantech VC fund. During the global financial crisis, NEP invested in the first LED start-up focused on solid-state lighting, grid management software, wind, the electrification-of-transport and photovoltaics.
At SeaAhead, Mark led the effort to stand-up the Gulf Blue Navigator accelerator program in Gulfport, MS and also led the company’s angel venture capitalinvestment process in Natrx, a nature-based 3D printer coastal restoration startup based in Raleigh, NC.  He is also currently an Advisor to Fathom Science, the metocean NC State spin-out taking 'AI out-to-sea'.
In the public service sector, Mark served a term as the Economic Development Director for Providence, RI. Here, he deployed an urban food strategy and introduced a bluetech economic cluster strategy for the Ocean State. Mark also served for 13 years as an officer in the US Army Reserves and was mobilized after 9-11 to Baghdad where he focused on nationbuilding.
Mark is a US director of Alfanar, the only venture philanthropy non-profit focused on the Arab world, and Tern, a Taiwan-based urban mobility company. Mark is also on the Board of Visitors for UNC's Institute of the Environment in Chapel Hill, NC.
Mark holds an MBA and Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University and a BS in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering from Webb Institute