Mark LaRosa is an experienced technical leader with over 15 years of expertise in infrastructure, database/analytics, and global-scale distributed systems. He specializes in assisting technical founding teams to win their first set of marquee customers, develop technical strategies, and prioritize the product roadmap and features. He has previously held leadership positions at some of the biggest names in tech like Google, AWS, Interana, MemSQL, and CORAID, where he was responsible for generating billions in deal value through early customer acquisition and large scale enterprise deals.

Mark graduated from the University of Michigan with a Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction from the School of Information and a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering from the College of Engineering. He is currently an Operating Partner at Amplify Partners and has previously served as an Advisory Board Member at Tenfold, Vice President of Solutions Architecture at Interana, Director of Sales Engineering at MemSQL, and as a Principal Architect at CORAID.

With his extensive experience in technical sales, solution architecture, and enterprise growth, Mark has a diverse background in both the private and public markets. He is comfortable as a builder deeply immersed in technical minutiae as he is in designing and closing very large scale enterprise deals at a full spectrum of company stages. Mark is an accomplished technical leader who can design technical go-to-market strategies, help get the first Fortune 50 customer win, and close billion-dollar ARR deals.