Mark is an experienced senior financial executive with more than 30 years of experience in finance, administration, and operations in private industry and in the field of public accounting for KPMG Peat Marwick. Mark has strong experience in leading companies through change, in terms of growth and in transition to new ownership or new stages of development. Industry experience includes strategic planning, sale of business discussions, due diligence related to acquisitions, board presentations and bank loan negotiations. Public accounting experience includes all facets, from consulting with small businesses to managing the audits of a large multi-national organization.Mark has worked in a wide variety of industries, a number of them in manufacturing, to others in banking, healthcare, nonprofit, boat sales and service, military contracting, and one in the performing arts. Performing as either a CFO or Senior Audit Manager for these companies, he has more than 30 years’ experience at a supervisory or management level, and has instructed courses both at the national and local office level.Mark was part of a team that purchased a manufacturer of surge protection equipment from a public company. He was instrumental in establishing the organizational structure for the new company, and helped grow the company to the point where it was sold to another public company five years later for nine times the original purchase price. Mark has served as VP of Finance and Administration of a four-location boat sales and service organization, helping to reduce boat inventory from $10 million to $4 million in his two year tenure. He also functioned as CFO at a manufacturer of solar control window film, developing the necessary corporate structure for this family business as it made the transition from an $11 million operation to a $25 million one.