Mark brings more than 30 years of experience in corporate finance, merchant banking, and private equity combined with significant corporate restructuring and business development experience across a broad array of industries. He has managed or significantly participated in a wide range of M&A and financing transactions as well as numerous strategic planning projects with healthcare, medical devices, insurance, shipbuilding, aviation, aerospace and defense and other high tech or specialty manufacturing businesses both domestically and internationally.Prior to RiverHawk Worldwide, Mark also served as a Managing Director for The RiverHawk Group LLC, a middle market merchant-banking firm that he co-founded in 1996. He provides a broad range of financing and corporate development services to the Firm. He also currently serves as a Managing Director of Development for the CLH Group, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), focused on acquiring, managing and building capability across three main sectors: aerospace/defense and secure logistics; medical device manufacturing and healthcare technology research; and critical national infrastructure protection and redevelopment. Mark's experience also includes having served as the Director of Special Projects for River Capital, one of the oldest private equity firms in the Southeastern United States, where he specialized in restructuring the firm’s investments in aviation services companies as well as identifying and consummating investments in precision manufacturers of medical devices/products, aircraft components and ground service equipment. Prior to River Capital, he spent six years in the Corporate Finance and Restructuring groups at Ernst & Young, where he focused in three industry areas, specialty manufacturing, healthcare and insurance. Prior to E&Y, Mark served on the President’s staff at Southwire Company, the largest privately held wire and cable manufacturer in the United States at that time, as a mergers and acquisitions analyst.