Mark A. Zawacki

Founder and Managing Partner
Palo Alto
maz@milestone-group.com

Mark Zawacki is the Founder and Managing Partner of Palo Alto based Milestone Group. Since 2001, Milestone Group has worked with more than 190+ tech, media and telco (TMT) clients globally on a myriad of growth and revenue-related initiatives including strategy, innovation, business and corporate development, alliances/partnering and international expansion. Milestone Group clients have included Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, SAP, NTT Verio, Swisscom, Symantec, Trend Micro, Avocent, Vignette, MX Logic, Talend, PGP, Xcalia (acquired by Progress Software), Identum (acquired by Trend Micro) and Authentica (acquired by EMC).

Prior to founding Milestone Group, Mark spent nearly a decade as a strategy consultant with the CSC Index, the strategic management consulting division of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Variously based in Amsterdam, London, Sydney and San Francisco, Mark's consulting at CSC Index focused on corporate strategy, organizational change and leveraging technology for business advantage.

Mark is a frequent speaker, panelist and moderator at TMT events globally. His recent conference panelist/moderator roles include AlwaysOn, Stanford Graduate School of Business Conference on Entrepreneurship, Software 200X conferences, Software Business Conference, MIT Enterprise Forum, SD Forum, VLAB, ANZA, MESDA, The World Financial Symposium and several other corporate and international economic development functions. Mark also occasionally guest lectures in several MBA programs worldwide.

Mark holds a B.Sc. in Marketing from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of Rochester, William E. Simon Graduate School of Business, where he currently serves on the Executive Advisory Council.