Mark Driedger Email & Phone Number

Mckinney, Tx, Us

Waterloo, On, Ca

Sandvine is a leader in providing Application Quality of Experience software to telecom providers to analyze and optimize their networks. Up to $200M+ revenue and 800 staff. Personally managed teams of 300 staff.Wide functional leadership responsibility – currently: inside sales, IT, and manufacturing/supply chain. Previously responsible for product management, R&D and customer support. Personally, leads company-wide planning, governance, growth initiatives, and continuous improvement. Key accomplishments include:• Crisis management to successfully resolve a US trade restriction issue and maintain business continuity in the interim. • Consistent delivery of peer group leading EBITDA margins, starting from negative territory in 2015• Led the transition from a custom hardware to COTS to software business model, which drove a 2000+ bps margin improvement. Led supply chain margin improvements year-over-year and sustained business continuity during Covid.• Executive leader for 2 public to private transactions and their integration – business plan, org design, go to market rationalization, integration of processes, tools, and products. • Led definition and delivery of a new, merged product architecture, combining the best of each product and setting the foundation for growth with ROI-based software modules.• Launched a new customer support program and drove reductions in discounting and revenue leakage.• Transformed 300+ person global R&D team to Agile

The Stratify Group is a boutique business strategy and operational improvement, consulting firm focused on the Private Equity market. Specializing in helping PE firms drive value creation initiatives that ultimately help them accelerate the time to exit and profit realization of their portfolio companies. Stratify's services are based on a foundation of lean best practice tools that specifically focus on driving growth and margin expansion in a short time horizon.As Founding Partner, Mark Driedger leads the Stratify Group engagements in:• Diligence support (preliminary and confirmatory)• Operational governance (CEO dashboard)• GTM alignment and optimization for growth (customer segmentation & resource allocation)• Strategy creation and implementation• Product launch readiness inclusive of sales readiness• Product roadmap resource allocations frameworks that fuel growth

Tektronix (formerly a Danaher company and now part of Netscout) is a provider of Network Assurance systems to help telecom providers analyze and troubleshoot network performance issues. Up to $450M revenue and 2000 staff. Personally managed a $250M P&L and teams of 1000 staff.Responsible for manufacturing / supply chain, pre-sales technical and commercial proposals, and a customer project office. Led continuous improvement using Danaher Business System tools. • Doubled sales funnel in partnership with the global sales VP by creating growth metrics, holding regional sales leaders accountable for driving improvement, and root causing gaps.• Cut software integration interval in half by working with the engineering VP to adopt continuous integration and single piece flow into the software development organization.

Various executive roles including VP Product Line Management, VP/GM for the business with full functional/P&L responsibility , VP Solutions (engineering, service and deployment). Managed global teams of up to 1000 staff.

Global product management for Tektronix' Unified Assurance portfolio - a passive probing system which provides network, service and customer assurance monitoring for converged telecommunications networks.

Ca

VP with global responsibility for product management of Nortel's Voice-over-IP and TDM switching products.

Ca

Master’S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical Engineering