A partner and head of the professional services practice at Lotis Blue consulting, Mark serves primarily AmLaw 100, Top 75 Accounting, and Major Specialty Consulting Firms. He has advised senior leadership teams and boards on critical firm issues including growth strategy, firm design, and partner compensation for more than 15 years. Mark brings sophisticated data science and behavioral science to his work, delivering unique advanced insight and certainty to change efforts in the complex partnership environment.

Prior to joining our team, Mark spent five years at Merck & Co. where he led R&D and manufacturing plant teams on new drug discovery and manufacturing scale-up for a range of pharmaceutical classes.

Mark earned his MBA from the J.L. Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University and his Bachelor and Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.

Mark frequently writes and speaks on growth, execution, and technologies and tools that are revolutionizing firm management and leadership, with his work being published most recently in Accounting Today and The Legal Marketing Association publications. He is the author of The Lost Art of Governance, co-authored with Grant Thornton, and AI is the Future of Everything, Right? for Strategies – The Journal of Legal Marketing from the Legal Marketing Association (LMA). Additionally, Mark presented the groundbreaking work with DLA Piper – Harnessing Predictive Analytics to Drive Client Growth and Retention – at the LMA National Conference.