Mark Cross is a highly innovative senior management professional with extensive experience in various industries such as Manufacturing, Broadcast, Humanitarian, Retail, and Service. With strong strategic, financial, operational, and marketing expertise, Mark excels in process improvement, system reinvention, strategic planning, and new acquisitions & startup enterprises. His specialties include finding innovative solutions for business operations, marketing design, branding, and messaging, and process and data modeling design and construction.

Mark has studied CPA at the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants, MSMC in Marketing Communications, and BGS in Accounting at Roosevelt University. He has served in numerous executive positions such as Chief Operating Officer at Think Small, Chief Solutions Officer at Solve Globally, CFO at Ciranda, CEO at CGC, and Vice Board Chair, Treasurer, and Asian VP at MATTOO. He has also been part of various organizations such as Chief Advisor at Cinderella Club, Treasurer, Board of Directors at Think Small, Partner at JTM Vision, Chief Operating Officer at American Red Cross Twin Cities, VP Finance at Fox Television, Director of Finance at ABC, Director of Finance at ABC Radio, Accounting Supervisor at WGN Radio, and Systems Analyst at MPC Products.

Mark is an expert in leveraging low, mid, and high technology solutions into all phases of business operations. He has also traveled extensively throughout China and Southeast Asia, assimilating business processes from East to West and West to East. He combines his cultural and new system design and implementation specialist skills to lead start-ups, turnarounds from a financial, strategic, and operational standpoint.