Mark advises entrepreneurs in the information technology, communications and entertainment practice at MaRS. He specializes in B2B enterprise software, SaaS business models as well as security and privacy. Mark is member of the MaRS web business advisory panel and an advisor to New Ventures Projects at the Richard Ivey School of Business.
Mark’s been working in the information and communication technology industry for more than 15 years. He’s worked with some of the biggest companies in the industry, but he’s also worked with very early stage start-ups—so he knows what it’s like to be in an entrepreneur’s shoes.
He has been a key leader of three start-ups: Netcom Canada, an Int...
Mark advises entrepreneurs in the information technology, communications and entertainment practice at MaRS. He specializes in B2B enterprise software, SaaS business models as well as security and privacy. Mark is member of the MaRS web business advisory panel and an advisor to New Ventures Projects at the Richard Ivey School of Business.
Mark’s been working in the information and communication technology industry for more than 15 years. He’s worked with some of the biggest companies in the industry, but he’s also worked with very early stage start-ups—so he knows what it’s like to be in an entrepreneur’s shoes.
He has been a key leader of three start-ups: Netcom Canada, an Internet Service Provider sold to AT&T Canada in 1999; Nextair Inc., a developer of software for wireless devices sold to a major Canadian technology company in early 2005; and ConnectedN, a software as a service (SaaS) company developing simple and intuitive social communications tools.
He has also held senior sales, marketing, solutions development and innovation roles at Bell Canada and AT&T Canada.
At Bell he developed and helped launch several innovative new businesses in areas as diverse as real estate, local search and reviews and home security and monitoring. At AT&T he product managed the high growth $150 million+ internet access, hosting and security business lines and led the Advanced Internet Solutions consulting team.
