Mark is an accomplished high tech CEO, CMO, VP Strategy, VP Sales and Board Director, with a strong track record, and keen interest, in rolling out disruptive products, delighting customers, developing game-changing partnerships, and driving company growth.

Prior to joining Zilla Security, Mark guided growth at numerous cybersecurity startups. As Illusive’s CMO, Mark repositioned Illusive as an Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) provider, which resulted in the company’s acquisition by Proofpoint. He founded Prelert and served as its Chief Executive Officer thru its 2 funding rounds, growth to become the market leading anomaly detection solution for Splunk and Elastic, and eventual acquisition in 2016. Earlier, he served as the Worldwide Vice President of Firewall and Behavioral Analysis Sales at McAfee, where he was instrumental in integrating products into the McAfee solution portfolio, ramping sales and growing the sales organization of a $100M+ business. Prior to McAfee, Mark built and led sales organizations at software startups Securify, Axentis, OnLink and JYACC, consistently growing revenues 30-100% year on year. At OnLink Technologies, Mark grew revenues from 0 to $20M in under 2 years, leading to the acquisition of OnLink by Siebel Systems for $609M.