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Mark Thompson: Profile

Success Built To Last
Mark Thompson brings to Success Built to Last two decades of experience as a senior executive, board member, management coach, entrepreneur, author, producer and investor.

As an executive coach and visiting scholar at Stanford University, Mark has lead senior teams and organizations through Vision-Values-Strategy initiatives based on the business classic Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras. Much of his coaching, strategic counseling and research springs from his experience as an insider in boardrooms and management committees, along with his passion for unlocking the unique skills of hundreds of remarkable people around the world-from nonprofit leaders and billionaires, to the presidents of nations and the CEOs of small and large international organizations.

Mark's unique ability to draw out the relevant personal and business stories from these thought leader interviews formed the foundation for our book, Success Built to Last, and also resulted in production of more than a dozen audiobooks, including One-on-One with Jack Welch, One-on-One with Jimmy Carter, the Charles Schwab CEO series, Women on Leadership, Seven Sacred Secrets with Maya Angelou, Richard Branson, Michael Dell, The Dalai Lama, Sen. John McCain and many others. Mark's interviews and insightful stories about meeting hundreds of remarkable people formed the foundation for the book, Success Built to Last. He is audiobook executive producer for Hidden Kitchens in 2005 and the Peabody award-winning Lost & Found Sound series on National Public Radio in 2004.

Forbes Magazine honored 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 his mentor, Charles Schwab, serving in a variety of senior roles, including Chief Communications Officer and, later, as Executive Producer of what was in the late 90's one of the world's largest and most profitable websites, Schwab.com.

Mark is a former board member of major 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 was a founding ambassador/member of the Spirit-in-Business and Uplift Capital, a private equity fund specializing in healthy lifestyle companies.

He served on the Council of The Heartland Circle Thought Leaders Gatherings. At the World Economic Forum, he served as a Governor for the Securities Industry and a Lecturer/Member at their annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland.

Mark is a Visiting Scholar at his alma mater, Stanford University, and a former management advisor to the Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory, Stanford's Realtime Venture Design Lab (ReVeL), which seeks to improve the potential sustainability of new ventures by helping the founding team discover and articulate a compelling, unified theme based on their identity that inspires their stakeholders and the communities they serve.

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