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Mark is the Managing Partner and Chairman of Expansion Capital Partners, LLC. He has been an entrepreneur for 20 years and has depth of management and operating experience in many industries, specializing in sales / marketing and corporate strategy. Mark has served in senior executive roles for several venture-backed companies, and has fifteen years of investment management experience. He previously built two successful financial service firms and has a broad background in venture capital on both the buy-side and sell-side. Mark currently serves as Chairman of the Board for two portfolio companies: SensorTran and World Energy Labs. In addition, Mark serves on the Advisory Board of the Cleantech Venture Network, the leading data provider and conference organizer for Cleantech venture capitalists. Of note, Expansion Capital was the only venture capital firm to be a Founding Investor of the Cleantech Venture Network and Cleantech Capital Group. He enjoys an active speaking schedule, having most recently addressed audiences at the SRI Energy Tech Conference, the Investors Circle, and the Cleantech Venture Network. Furthermore, Mark has a monthly interview segment on Steve Case’s Lime Radio Network, broadcast on Sirius Satellite, where he interviews leading Cleantech CEO’s. Prior to founding Expansion Capital Partners, Mark was most recently the President and Founder of Social Capital Partners, Inc., an NASD Member Firm that worked exclusively with venture capital. At Social Capital Partners, Mark successfully raised funding and provided strategic advisory services to companies in sectors including chemical testing, clean technology, life sciences, non-toxic pesticides, media, financial services, consumer products, publishing and organic foods. From 1988 through 1997, Mark was President of Symphony Capital Management, Inc. and Donohue, Greenfield & Associates, which were financial service firms with over 300 corporate and family clients. These firms managed investments across all asset classes, provided finacial planning and periodically advised clients on venture capital transactions. During this period, Mark was a Certified Financial Planner. Mark successfully sold his ownership stake in 1997.Mark has a BS in Investment Management, with Honors, from Babson College, recognized as the leading academic institution for entrepreneurship in the United States, and he was recently elected to a second term on Babson’s Board of Overseers. He also serves in a variety of other non-profit roles, including as the Financial Management facilitator for the Threshold Foundation. In the past, he was a Board Member and Chair of the Membership Committee for the Social Venture Network, among many other leadership roles. | 