Emerging Markets

As Managing Partner, Mark has overall responsibility for the successful growth and operations of EMC’s consulting businesses. He oversees the consulting staff, project execution, key client projects, strategy and business development for the firm.

Mark joined EMC in 2006, where he led project management, client delivery and proposal development work in Cambodia. He then successfully opened and managed the EMC Lao PDR office, before returning to Cambodia at the end of 2010.

Mark has led teams on projects involving SME development, NGO sustainability and commercialization, strategic business planning, market sizing and feasibility studies, business modelling and analysis, poverty alleviation and grassroots business development, reflecting EMC’s work serving both private sector development and business consulting demands.

In private sector development work, Mark has taken a lead role on value chain and market access studies for clients such as the World Bank/IFC, USAID, EU, UNDP, and SNV. He led the analysis and reporting of GTZ Laos’ published Enterprise Survey in 2007 and in 2009 as well as in EMC’s production of an Export Booklet for Cambodian SMEs – also published. His experience in CSR-related activities and interventions to improve competitiveness and promote broad-based growth has been leveraged through a range of EMC client projects. In 2009 Mark was selected as an Auditor for the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) standards for results measurement in the field of PSD.

For business consulting clients, Mark successfully guided a feasibility study for an office tower construction project in Cambodia, implemented by Hyundai Amco. He also has managed the development of several strategic investment plans for investors in Laos. Straddling the PSD and commercial aspects of EMC’s work, Mark engaged in business planning activities for social enterprises such as with IDE, in relation to ceramic water filter commercialization, and for CraftNetwork-Indonesia, supported by the IFC, for handicrafts.

Before joining EMC, Mark was Founder and Chapter President of Net Impact, Thailand and held consultancy roles for: the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, performing analysis on WB guarantee projects; POEMA automotive equipment in Brazil; and Interwise where he managed the Microsoft and Applied Materials relationships. He also worked at AT&T Wireless, Real Networks and IBM.

Mark holds an MBA from Georgetown University and a BS from Cal Poly University. He is an American national.