Mark Thompson

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Mark Thompson is coauthor of the international bestseller, Success Built to Last. He brings to every engagement two decades of experience as a senior executive, board member, management coach, producer and investor in growing businesses. Mark helps your team embrace rapid change, ignite growth as leaders and engage with influential people who are driving the future of your brand. Our thought leader programs inspire deeper relationships with your communities of interest around the world.

As an executive coach and producer of leadership programs, Mark is passionate about unlocking the unique insights and skills of hundreds of remarkable people around the world? from executives, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders and billionaires, to the presidents of nations and the leaders of small and large organizations.

Mark's ability to draw out the relevant personal and business stories from thought leader interviews formed the foundation for our book, Success Built to Last, and also resulted in many audio and video programs, including, the Charles Schwab CEO series, Women on Leadership, Seven Sacred Secrets with Maya Angelou, and the DVD program, Creating a Life that Matters.

Forbes Magazine included Mark on its list of America's leading venture investors with the "Midas" touch in 2004. He has been an investor and chairman of many technology and media startups. He worked for a dozen years for Charles Schwab, serving in a variety of senior roles, including Chief Communications Officer and, later, as Executive Producer responsible for the customer experience of Schwab.com.

Mark is a venture investor, management advisor and former board member of private and public companies. He served as Chairman of Rioport, Inc., which popularized the MP3 player; he was Chairman of Integration, Inc., a communications semiconductor company; and Chairman of VMAX, which was the exclusive distributor of Micron PCs in China. He has been speaker at London Business School, Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, The Economist and Fortune Magazine conferences, The New York Stock Exchange summits with The Churchill Club and Financial Executives Institute. He served on the Council of The Heartland Circle Thought Leaders Gatherings.

He is a cofounder of the Stanford Realtime Venture Design Lab and a visiting scholar at Stanford. Mark serves as faculty at the prestigious World Economic Forum & John F. Kennedy University.

He is a former member of the board of Best Buy Enterprises, Korn Ferry International, Interwoven and Teletech, and was an advisor to many other private startups. He served on the board of the National Investor Relations Institute and Seniornet.com. In 1996 he accepted an appointment to U.S. SEC Consumer Advisory Council.

He also created the Leaders of the New Century series through his production company, Network Public Broadcasting International, and was a contributor and host for CEO and executive interviews for thought leaders programs by Korn Ferry International and Ernst & Young.

Mark has a passion for education and educational media, particularly for those in need. He volunteers his time and money to independent producers of public broadcasting and to classroom and scholarship programs for elementary and graduate education programs.