Prior to founding OutdoorPartner, Mark founded eLucid, a New York based firm that successfully acquired and sold several companies in the media space. eLucid generated over $2.3 million in transaction fees in twelve months.
Before founding eLucid, Mark was an investment banking professional at Salomon Smith Barney in New York. At Salomon, Mark gained an intimate knowledge of the outdoor advertising industry through his transactions with Outdoor Communications that was, at the time, the third largest outdoor advertising company in the United States.
Before Salomon, Mark worked at Heenan Blaikie in Toronto as a corporate lawyer.
Mark graduated from the University of Toronto with an LL.B./M.B.A. where he won the Hewlett Packard Award for top performance in Finance. He also graduated with honors from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in social science and statistics.
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