Mark is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of ARIA Research. He is a veteran entrepreneur with a 20-year history of founding and running technology-centric companies and with 30 years of experience designing user-facing technical systems. In 1999, he founded the technology and law firm, Haft, Harrison & Wolfson, LLC where he led development of the technical systems of multiple New York firms. In 2006, he founded the Influencer Marketing agency, AH Global, LLC where he served as CEO and led systems design both internally and for clients. In 2013, he co-founded the online peer-to-peer boat rental and charter marketplace, Cruzin.com, leading the design of the company’s internal and externally-facing infrastructure.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, Mark served as Technical Counsel to the media conglomerate, Primedia, leading their entry into the mobile space, as well as acting as CTO of its daughter company, Channel One, where he designed the systems to move the company from satellite delivery to internet-based systems. He started his career as a systems engineer and technologist for the International Monetary Fund/World Bank Group, Bell Atlantic and Booz Allen Hamilton.