Unleashing Potential Everywhere
Mark Cleveland lives the Parallel path—offering presence, perspective, and pattern recognition for founders building bold, integrated lives.
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Companies started from scratch and sold
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Are Your Growth Strategies Aligned with Your True Capacity?
Mark Cleveland and his Mergers, Acquisitions & Innovation team deliver high-leverage assessments and custom action plans to help you:
Whether you’re preparing to acquire, exit, or evolve—Mark helps you move from complexity to clarity.
Mark Cleveland has launched startups, led turnarounds, scaled teams, and navigated multiple exits across a spectrum of industries. He brings a unique gift for pattern recognition—seeing how energy, opportunity, and timing align.
More than experience, Mark offers clarity. He helps founders and leadership teams:
On the Parallel Entrepreneur Podcast, Mark sits down with visionary founders building not just one venture—but a whole life of aligned endeavors.
These are the leaders shaping industries, mentoring teams, managing risk, and staying true to their why across multiple domains. They share what it really takes to:
Tune in for real stories of resilience, reinvention, and rhythm—from entrepreneurs living the Parallel path.
No leader better exemplifies the energy, drive and determination required of an entrepreneur than Mark Cleveland. Successfully leading the growth of numerous companies across his career he has been a role model for me, modeling the optimism and enthusiasm required to rally a team to accomplish amazing goals. Mark’s ability to develop a strategy, articulate a vision to achieve that strategy, and inspire the innovation required to execute on it distinguishes him as a entrepreneur worthy of the many accolades he has received across his productive career.
Mark is a great guy who knows how to get things done when others don’t he is made up of equal parts enthusiasm and drive and has a knack for getting even the biggest projects off the ground. Mark often helps you see ways to accomplish your goals when you yourself don’t find them possible. And he makes a mean pair of socks!
Mark is one of the most dynamic individuals I have ever known. His energy, commitment, and intellect is amazing and contagious. I am thankful for the opportunity and experience gained under Mark’s direction.
When you look up the word “entrepreneur” in the dictionary you are likely to find a picture of Mark. Without question he is one of the most driven people I’ve met in business – he cares about the bottom line, the people that work for him and building organizations that perform at the highest levels.
While Mark was President at TripPak, I worked with him in my capacity as a DHL National Account Manager with great results. He is an outstanding, creative thinker and a natural leader who has spearheaded many positive and innovative programs. In addition, Mark is honest, driven and a real pleasure to work with and brings years of experience and a distinguished record of achievement to every new project, virtually assuring successful results.
I have had the pleasure of working with Mark in multiple capacities, and could not more highly recommend him as an honest, thoughtful, driven business executive. Mark is true to his word, smart, ingenious and a man whom I would want on any team I had any time. If you are lucky enought to work with him, you will understand what I mean.
Mark is an innovative and energetic entrepreneur. Not only does he possess a great eye for the opportunity, he’s relentless in the development and execution of those ideas which results in incredibly valuable business outcomes.
Mark is a tremendous manager and motivator. What I appreciate the most about his management style is his ability to mentor employees and help them see career paths they never knew they could be good at. Mark had the vision and trust in me in my career and when a C Level Manager shows that to you, you would go through hell for them! Mark is what I have strived to be in my own career since working for him! Working with Mark has been a highlight of my career thus far and affected my opinion of what a mentor should be. If you get a chance to work with/for Mark, you should jump at the opportunity. I would work for him again in an instant!
For over 30 years I’ve known Mark professionally and personally. His continued success and level of energy serve as an inspiration to many. We’ve been partners now for well over a decade and his broad skills and perspective helped to reshape the business for growth and scale.
