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professional background
Experience
Managing Director Stratagility (Privately Held ; 1-10 employees ; Management Consulting industry) March 2004 – Present (4 years 6 months)
Generating a strong and profitable foundation, Leading the business into new growth areas, building a quality clientelle, laying down an effective organizational framework, developing strong and trusted network of partners, refining the companies unique strategy framework and methodologies, developing the vison and thought leadership of the company, practicing Strategic Consulting assignments as an example for others as well as a way to keep up to date with market and customer needs.
Mark has 5 recommendations (1 co-worker, 4 partners) including: * Bill Barberg, President, Insightformation, Inc. * Lawrence Wasserman PhD, President, Fortech International Ltd * Allan Niass, Internet Business Stratagist, Inuka Pty Ltd * Nezar Al Basri, Owner, IMC - Ideal Management Consulting * Bona Sijabat
Regional Director, Asia Pacific Accellion (Privately Held ; 51-200 employees ; Information Technology and Services industry) May 2000 – February 2004 (3 years 10 months)
Roles ranged from Product management, buisness development through to sales and management. Directly Responsible for successfully establishing a new line of business, and the major revenue source to date - Internet Backup Service. Still today the largest source of revenues for the company. Captured and managed the biggest customer and revenue earner(Worlds largest PC manufacturer).
Mark has 3 recommendations (2 co-workers, 1 partner) including: * Joanne Delangie, VP Marketing, Accellion, Inc. * Warren Kaplan, CEO, ACCELLION,INC * Bhagwat Pant
Vice President, Product Management SPH ASIAONE (Public Company ; 5001-10,000 employees ; Internet industry) December 1999 – May 2000 ( 6 months)
Led Revenue improvements of over 30% during term. Initiated and led formation of Joint venture with Quicken to create Asian Financial Portal
Director, Financial Services KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING (Privately Held ; 51-200 employees ; Information Technology and Services industry) July 1999 – December 1999 ( 6 months)
Revitalized critical customer account, peronal interventions directly led to renewed contract with Singapore’s largest Bank, the companies largest revenue source. Developed vison and framework for new unique positioning "Smarter eBusiness". leading to Goldman Sach's direct investment in the business.
Manager, Advanced Business Systems ALLIANZ (Public Company ; 10,001 or more employees ; AZ; Financial Services industry) 1997 – July 1999 (2 years)
Managed & Led successful development & delivery of Allianz Australia's most important new business system for over a decade. Delivered on time, ready for launch of privatized market in Workers Compensation. At the time Allianz Australia's No.1 Strategic Priority, now earning revenues over 100M p.a.
Mark has 1 recommendation (1 co-worker) including: * Karpurika Raychaudhuri, Project Manager, Allianz
Senior Knowledge Engineer & Consultant Computer Sciences Corporation (Public Company ; 10,001 or more employees ; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry) 1994 – 1997 (3 years)
Led CSC into many successful sales engagements & large successful project implementations, including COLOSSUS, the worlds most successful commercial Expert System. IT Consultancy & Teaching (awarded DFE licence)
BTC (Public Company ; 51-200 employees ; Education) 1991 – 1994 (3 years)
Introduced breakthrough Virtual Reality systems, Developed & Implemented IT Plan, Awarded DFE licence
Knowledge Engineer WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION (Public Company ; 5001-10,000 employees ; WBK; Financial Services industry) 1987 – 1991 (4 years)
My first job after graduating. I developed the worlds first successful FOREIGN EXCHANGE charting system combining the pattern matching excellence of Neural Networks (to detect emerging FOREX data patterns) with the rule based decision making of Expert Systems (capturing expert opinions on what data patterns and various factors implied for probable chart movements)
Education
University of Essex MSc, Knowledge Based Systems, June 1986 – June 1987
University of East London BSc, Computing & Mathematics, September 1983 – June 1986 Graduated with First Class Honours
Recommendations
“Mark is a delight to work with and an exceptionally quick study. He brings a Can-Do attitude with the skills and experience to help organizations deal with the challenges of strategy execution. I definitely hope I have an opportunity to team with him in the future.” August 14, 2007
Bill Barberg, President, Insightformation, Inc. worked directly with Mark at Stratagility
“Mark is a hard working, enthusiastic professional. His work ethic and focus to achieve success and deliver are so outstanding that I strongly recommend him.” June 4, 2007
Lawrence Wasserman PhD, President, Fortech International Ltd was with another company when working with Mark at Stratagility
“Mark has an innate ability to pick the few core technologies that become our future, from the mass. I would be lost without his mentoring guidance.” April 9, 2007
Allan Niass, Internet Business Stratagist, Inuka Pty Ltd was with another company when working with Mark at Stratagility
“Mark is not only professional in working in partnership with his clients and fellow consultants but of leading expertise in strategy and Knowledge management. He is a source of researched knowledge and multinational expertise that are complimented with qaulity of ideas and situational solutions.” June 9, 2006
Nezar Al Basri, Owner, IMC - Ideal Management Consulting was with another company when working with Mark at Stratagility
“Mark has great vision, is trustworthy, and is fantastic to share ideas with. I am more than happy to endorse Mark in anything he does.” October 23, 2004
Bona Sijabat was with another company when working with Mark at Stratagility
“Mark's strong understanding of technology combined with product management, product marketing and marketing communications was instrumental in launching a unique global service. I was confident with Mark's recommendations for marketing initiatives. I would welcome the opportunity to work with Mark in the future.” March 1, 2008
Joanne Delangie, VP Marketing, Accellion, Inc. worked with Mark at Accellion
“Mark is an outstanding individual with absolute integrity and can "think out of the box". Mark was instrumental in obtaining a major contract in Asia with Dell Asia and worked closely with them to assure the product met their requirements. The contract became a cash cow for Accellion while the Company changed its model from an SSP to a e-mail solution for large files. I could not have done such without Mark's energy, passion and intellect.” January 24, 2008
Warren Kaplan, CEO, ACCELLION,INC managed Mark indirectly at Accellion
“Mark is a great person to know and work with. Over the last few years, I had the opportunity to meet with him and every time its enlightening as well as entertaining. He has vast knowledge and diverse skills and is a very capable leader, mentor, consultant and friend at the same time.” April 17, 2005
Bhagwat Pant was with another company when working with Mark at Accellion
“Mark has been one of the best intellectuals that I have had the pleasure of working with in my professional career. He has great leadership qualities complemented by a brilliant mind that generates thought-provoking ideas.” July 18, 2005
Karpurika Raychaudhuri, Project Manager, Allianz worked directly with Mark at ALLIANZ
Interests:
Strategy, Strategy Aligned Management, Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Agility, Values & Value, Social Mission, Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Participatory Culture, Dialogue & Learning, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Change Management, Complex Adaptive Systems, Evolutionary Complexity, Collective Intelligence, Predictive Markets, Semantic Web, Open Source
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