Meet Mark

Mark is a highly accomplished and results-oriented Scientist and Business Leader with extensive international and domestic experience which includes experience in business consulting, plant management, production management, new product development, process innovation, R&D, labor relations, safety management, quality management, and technical support. He is a passionate, energetic, and visionary leader and communicator skilled in developing strategies, building effective teams, and coaching and mentoring others to achieve optimum performance. 

Mark has always been a highly inquisitive person with an endless thirst for understanding how things work and why they work that way. From an early age he developed a strong open-mindedness for any and all ideas even if they did not fit into the scientific paradigms of the day. He excelled in high school in all subjects, but his passion was for the sciences. He finished his high school years with numerous awards and entered Saint Francis University in Loretto, PA where he also received numerous awards before graduating summa cum laude with a degree in chemistry. After completing his education, he took his strong intellectual curiosity into the corporate world as a scientist.

Mark’s award-winning corporate career spanned three decades, included multiple global corporations and projects in North America, Europe and Asia. He worked his way up the corporate ladder from a basic research scientist to high-level positions that included Plant Manager of a manufacturing facility with over 150 people in his organization and a corporate Quality and Technical Support General Manager responsible for the quality and productivity improvement of 10 plants located around the globe.

Mark’s inquisitive nature combined with his strong focus on practical application of scientific principles served as the core of his success in the corporate world. He consistently delivered extraordinary results resulting in massive increases to the bottom-line profitability of the corporations he worked for.

Mark always says that, “Scientific theory doesn’t pay the bills. It takes practical application of science in real world situations to truly make a difference.” Throughout his corporate career, he became known for delivering results through science. And he has a way of teaching highly technical principles in a way that is easy to understand and relevant to people at all levels of an organization including the highly trained scientists, the financially oriented management executives and the manufacturing floor production employees who are on the front lines of making products each and every day.

Mark continues to innovate with other business leaders around the world. Mark’s latest focus involves the innovative combination of a systems-based management approach to both business and manufacturing processes along with leadership development of employees at all levels within the business organization. Mark has formed a highly effective collaborative partnership with Johane Ligondé. Johane is an award-winning principal, educational strategist, and executive coach. Together they help businesses engage employees at all levels to become leaders and to effectively contribute in a way that raises the performance of the business to reach its full potential.