2023 Speaker Bios

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Mark is an early-stage technology entrepreneur and executive with a strong background in software engineering. He has led and built teams, raised capital, written code, managed customer support, and all other aspects of an early[1]stage technology company. Mark has recently returned from New York City working as CTO/Co-Founder of Validately.com (acquired by UserZoom in 2019). Prior to this, he founded CVSDude in 2002, which was acquired in 2009. Mark has gained a lot of experience as a Founder/Co-Founder/CTO and running early-stage startups to the point of exit and transition out.