Rick Mark is a highly accomplished Sales Management Executive with a remarkable history of leading revenue growth, business development, and change leadership across the optical, vision diagnostic, and vision care industries. Rick holds a Masters' degree from Wartburg Theological Seminary and a BA degree in English from Wartburg College. With a persistent focus on performance improvement, Rick has successfully launched new products, built relationships with key accounts, developed success cultures, and driven revenue and profit growth. He possesses exceptional skills in CRM, B2B & B2C, Key Accounts, New Product Launches, C-Level Selling, KPIs, and Team Building.

Rick is an expert in Planning and Implementing Strategic Growth Initiatives, Leveraging Innovation and Change to Build Competitive Advantage, Developing Effective Go-To-Market Strategies for New Products & Services, Recruiting, Training, and Leading Top Performance Sales & Operations Teams. He thrives in both early-stage and mature organizations facing marketing and business development challenges.

In the past, Rick has held leadership positions in several organizations, including Vice President - National Accounts at Cooper Vision, Vice President - National Account Retail Sales at Vision-Ease Lens, Vice President of Sales at PRIO, Director - Sales and Marketing, Visual Fatigue Lenses at Essilor, Regional Sales Director, West at PixelOptics, Inc., Senior Sales Director - Retail Accounts at QSpex Technologies, Inc., Retail Account Manager - Sales at Shamir Insight Inc., and Strategic Account Executive at Menicon America, Inc.