Mark is a founder and a Managing Director of Wampumm LLC– which is a business consulting affiliate of White Summers. He has written numerous papers on matters affecting pre-public companies and investors and has spoken on these topics in seminars and conferences organized by IE Business School (Madrid), Technologico de Monterrey (Mexico), Spain Tech Center, the SV Forum, the Northern California Association of Harvard Business School, the International Angels Institute, the Asian Business Association, the EDA Consortium and other groups. Mark has also spoken on these topics in Spain, Hungary, Mexico, Singapore, the People’s Republic of China, Malaysia, Australia, and Canada. He was the organizer of the “Soup to Nuts” seminar series, the “Executive Leadership” case study series, and the “Business Books that Matter” series with the SV Forum, and the “Silicon Forest Forum” technology management conference with Intel Capital in the Pacific Northwest. Mark is also regularly invited to be a judge in technology company competitions globally and in the United States.

Prior to co-founding White-Summers in 1996, Mark formed two other law firms: White & Altman, and the firm of Carr, DeFilippo, White & Ferrell. Mark started his legal career as an attorney in the Silicon Valley offices of Cooley Godward and Fenwick & West. Prior to his legal career, Mark founded and worked as the Managing Director of the International Trade division of the Harper Group, a Fortune 500 company – and was the founder and Int’l President of Campamericana, a global travel operator based in Brussels, Belgium.

Mark is an avid golfer, runner and oarsman….and an aspiring fly fisherman.