Mark Sylvester Email & Phone Number

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

As a society, we are changed through the journey, through experiences. We share these stories so that others can be changed too.And there is no better place than in business to tell these stories so our audiences, no matter if it is an audience of one or of one hundred thousand, can understand how we think, what our values are, and what matters to us.Now while we were not taught how to “be unforgettable” in school, right now competition for your potential client’s attention, either online or on a podcast or on a stage, is fierce.Here's where you will learn the Art of High-Stakes, Short-Form Storytelling

I am the Executive Producer of TEDxSantaBarbara. This is a community project that brings TED to Santa Barbara in a fun, engaging way. We are currently producing a series of Virtual Conversations called Making Waves: Influencers and Disruptors.

Mixed Grill is a Strategic Communications consultancy. We help organizations tell their stories.

As the host for 805conversations, we produce a podcast heard in over 42 countries with thousands of listeners. Our focus is local stories from the public, private and educational sectors. We talk to leaders, established professionals and those just getting going with their entrepreneurial lives.

I have been in love with cooking since I was very young and learned from my Mom, an experimental cook, never cooking the same thing twice. I started cooking professionally when I was 18 and continued until I was 30 when I left the kitchen to start Wavefront Technologies. At 60, I returned to the kitchen to start the Gentlemen's Dining Club, a project that lasted a year. The goal was to teach my friends how to plan and produce a 5-course meal, including shopping, prepping, plating, and serving. Currently, I am cooking for families that are sheltering in place, in my spare time.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

I work with a crew of talented 'been-there, done that' professionals helping corporate, growth, and startup clients realize goals through a process we call Outcome Engineering

As a 27 year TEDster and 10 year TEDx organizer, I've been able to meet hundreds of other TEDx organizers, speakers, partners and friends of TED. This show gets behind the scenes and shares tips and tricks for veterans and first-time organizers alike. We focus on learning from one another, sharing surprises, talking about the challenges and dragons we slay to produce world-class events. We love the collaboration and teamwork that producing a TEDx entails.

Montecito, Ca, Us

I am the co-founder and CEO of the first community platform that focuses on making relevant connections between members. It was originally designed for the TED2003 conference and since gone on to be used by NASA, The White House, TEDx, and hundreds of organizations looking to help make valuable connections.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed worldwide team in the development, design, marketing, integration, and release of an internal A.I based platform to connect the thousands of employees across the globe. The system allowed for the asking of questions, which were parsed by the AI, then distributed to the person or person's most likely to have the answer. The mean time for an answer was 23 minutes at scale. The platform was mobile and responsive, had a chatbot UI for easy input of questions and had a voice-activated (Alexa) bot for use in conference rooms. A dashboard to manage the AI and interactions allowed for language translation management as well and fine-tuning the machine learning outout.

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I was the co-founder of the animation software company Wavefront, which merged with SGI and Alias Research in 1995. My tenure at Wavefront included: Support, Marketing, Training, QA, Technical Marketing, Public Relations, Strategic Planning, User Interaction Design, Feature Planning, Product Management and whatever else needed to be done.At Alias|Wavefront I was given the role of Ambassador, which included direct liason with the high profile customer base, including studios and international strategic clients. I was the 'face' and 'voice' of the company in all public relations activity. I was able to travel to almost every country that had a customer, and speak to almost every organization that was interested in Computer Graphics.