Biography:
Mr. Mansfield offers extensive hands-on experience in company start-ups, expansions, workouts, investment banking and venture capital transactions. He successfully co-founded a boutique investment bank, which was subsequently purchased by E*OFFERING, the investment bank of E*TRADE Corp. In the capacity of the bank’s President, he actively oversaw sales and trading and managed corporate finance overseeing a broad portfolio of investment companies for which over $100 million in equity financing was secured. He has led strategic planning and technology commercialization workshops throughout the world for the senior management of companies such as Bell Canada, Dow Corning, Eastman Kodak, Casa Cuervo, Covance, Fleetwood and Pep Boys. He has been consistently recruited as a turnaround manager overseeing exits for venture backed start-ups as well as a guest lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Webster University and Santa Ana College; he is an active member of the advisory board for the Center of Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA), University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Mark received an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business and a BA (Top Honors) from the Royal Military College of Canada; after graduation he was commissioned and served four years as a Naval Officer. He is on the Board of the Harvard Business School Association of Orange County (HBSAOC).