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Mark Cleveland: Connecting Great People and Great Ideas

Mark is not a superhuman, he just knows how to bring people together to realize a superhuman vision and unleash potential everywhere. 

5K+

Business Relationships

6

Companies started from scratch and sold

$50M+

Capital Raised

Mark knows what to do to acceleratefunding, growth and exit across many diverse sectors.

Are your growth and innovation strategies healthy?

Are they continually evolving with your processes, resources and people?

Mark’s Mergers, Acquisitions and Innovation team delivers assessments and game plans with actionable steps to map your acquisition plan and maximize value when your company is at peak market value. 

Artificial Intelligence Assessment and Work Plan

Improve how effectively your business leverages AI, both offensively and defensively, with a SWOT analysis of your current deployment of AI usage. Realize quick wins today and gain authoritative insight with a practical work plan to optimize AI for specific pain points and overall organizational flow.

Organizational Change Management Assessment

Get a systematic reality check to refine strategies, objectives and resources through measuring three core capacities - Organizational identity, Operational Maturity, and Organizational Culture.

Optimizing for Innovation

Fuel innovative thinking that outpaces a constantly changing competitive landscape with an evaluation of and a game plan for optimizing your internal innovation capabilities.

Market Research

Know exactly where to focus your resources for better results. Use our Al-infused platform and systematic approach to gain both quantitative and qualitative market insights that capture the perspectives of the employee and the customer for alignment with growth.

Cost Containment

Leverage our professional audit team to help your financial team optimize profits by benchmarking against our Fortune 500 client buying power. We confirm best contract structures and prices for all utilities and recurring services, then we negotiate and implement cost reductions.

Rolling Valuation Analysis

Be 100% ready for your next M&A move whether you're buying companies to fuel your growth or selling your own. Include an M&A advisor on your team to keep your road map updated with today's opportunities and seed-planting for tomorrow's.

The Vision of an Entrepreneur, the Experience of an Executive

Mark has started multiple companies, been acquired multiple times, and has revived and sold companies in multiple industries. He’s an expert at:

Team building, recruiting, retaining, mentoring, delegating.

Leveraging synergies already in motion.

Staying agile and simple to accelerate innovation.

Creating a learning environment and learning from mistakes, never giving up.

Cutting through jargon and cliches to deliver authentic visions that move us.

Imagining a second, third or fourth exit by preparing for M&A.

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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

Socrates

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

Thomas Edison

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Albert Schweitzer

“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake you can’t learn anything from being perfect.”

Adam Osborne

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

Scott Belsky

Co-founder of Behance, Inc.

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

Seth Godin

Author and Founder of Squidoo

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

Caterina Fake

Co-founder of Flickr

“The reason I’ve been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.”

Oprah Winfrey

Global Media Leader, Producer, and Actress

“Ask yourself, what would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.”

Sheryl Sandberg

Former COO of Meta

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

Reid Hoffman

Co-founder of LinkedIn

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… in a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

Mark Zuckerberg,

Facebook Co-founder

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

Elon Musk

PayPal co-founder, Tesla co-founder, SpaceX Co-founder

“If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you’re going to lose. The only way to really be ahead is to ‘be different’.”[o]

Larry Ellison

Oracle Co-founder

We do lots of Stuff. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.

Sergey Brin

Google Co-founder

“Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.”

Brian Chesky

Airbnb Co-founder

“The best ideas come from solving your own problems.”

Garrett Camp

Uber Co-founder

“Don’t fear taking chances. The biggest failure is not trying. Once you discover what you love, strive to excel at it.”

Melanie Perkings

Canva Co-founder

“Everyone has an idea, but it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.”

Jack Dorsey

Co-founder, Square Founder

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Endorsements

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.

John Cerasuolo

CEO of Leap Partners

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!

Dave Wisenteiner

Managing Director-Microsoft Business Group Accenture

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.

Mitch Hixon

Vice President of Business Development TriumphPay

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.

Jay Graves

COO of StyleBlueprint

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.

Cemile Logue

Regional Account Manager, UPS Supply Chain Solutions

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.

Don Green, LEED AP

Senior Water Consultant WK Dicerson & Co, Inc.

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.

Kraig Haberer

EVP, Corporate Development & Strategy,Health & Safety Institute

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!

Eric Levine

Lead Product Manager, FedRAMP Five9

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.

Michael Newman

Founder and President at Thanks For Holding

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