Mark has had a 25-year Wall Street career in Equity Trading which included roles as a Managing Director at such investment banks as Bear Stearns, ING, and Furman Selz. At Carlson Capital, a $5B Texas-based Hedge Fund, he was Head of Equity Trading in the areas of equity investing, including Merger Arbitrage and the transportation, industrial, and commodities sectors. As an operator, Mark was a partner at G2 Systems, a software implementation firm that specialized in accounting and financial risk management. G2 served clients that were major investment banks and Hedge Funds. Additionally, he has been a principal at Peak Funding Group, an asset-backed lender in the residential real estate industry. Mark holds a B.S. in Economics from the Tisch School at New York University.