Mark is a consultant with over 20 years of experience leading and managing transformation efforts in the areas of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement, Supply Chain and Distribution, Inventory Management, and Operations Cost Reduction.

• Areas of Expertise: Strategic Sourcing, Spend Analysis and Opportunity Assessments, Procurement Transformation, Strategic Sourcing Training, Procurement Organization Design, Category Management, Inventory Management, and Supplier Relationship Management
• Industries: Consumer Products, Distribution & Logistics, Financial Services, Food & Beverage, Aerospace & Defense, Communications, Hi-Tech, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Real Estate, Retail, Healthcare, Non-Profit, and Utilities
• Directed a ten-member consulting team to prioritize and source most major categories of indirect products and services as part of a successful effort to create an outsourced procurement services organization to support member companies of a major PE firm.
• Co-managed a strategic sourcing effort of over 20 consultants for a major U.S. retailer to enable over $250 million annual cost savings. Directed teams focused on facility services and energy management with annual recurring savings approaching $100 million.
• Directed strategic sourcing of staffing services, security services, security equipment, and material handling equipment to support a new distribution center for a global discount retailer of products and services.

Mark received his BS in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Florida and his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.