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Success Built to Last

Mark Thompson
Chairman
Executive Powertools
Co-author
Success Built to Last
PO Box 20070
Stanford, CA 94309-0070
408-569-5213

MARK THOMPSON
EXECUTIVE POWERTOOLS
CO-AUTHOR OF SUCCESS BUILT TO LAST
mcthompson@stanford.edu
http://www.SuccessBuilttoLast.com/
http://www.leadershipnow.com/

BIOGRAPHY
Mark is Chairman of Executive Powertools, a high-performance leadership training company, and author and producer of more than 20 audiobooks featuring over 300 of the world's most accomplished people, including Korn/Ferry International's Leaders of the New Century project, One-on-One with Jack Welch, On-on-One with Jimmy Carter, the Charles Schwab CEO series, Women on Leadership, Seven Sacred Secrets with Maya Angelou and others. He is audiobook executive producer for Hidden Kitchens in 2005 and the Peabody award-winning Lost & Found Sound series on National Public Radio in 2004.

Forbes Magazine honored Mark on its list of America's leading venture investors with the "Midas" touch in 2004. He has been an investor and chairman of many technology and media startups. He was appointed to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission Consumer Advisory Council by SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, and worked for a dozen years for his mentor, Charles Schwab, serving in a variety of senior roles, including Chief Communications Officer and, later, as Executive Producer of one of the world's largest and most profitable websites, Schwab.com.

Mark is an entrepreneur and former board member of major private and public companies, including Best Buy and Korn/Ferry. He served as Chairman of Rioport, Inc., which popularized the MP3 player; he was Chairman of Integration, Inc., a communications semiconductor company; and Chairman of VMAX, which was the exclusive distributor of Micron PCs in China; and Network Public Broadcasting Intl, an independent production company. He has been speaker at London Business School, Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, The Economist and Fortune Magazine conferences, The New York Stock Exchange summits with The Churchill Club and Financial Executives Institute. He was a founding member of the Spirit-in-Business World Summit and Uplift Capital, a private equity fund specializing in healthy lifestyle companies. He serves on the Council of The Heartland Circle Thought Leader Gatherings. At the World Economic Forum, he served as a Governor for the Securities Industry and a Lecturer/Member at their annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland.

Mark is a Visiting Scholar at his alma mater, Stanford University, and a former management advisor to the Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory, Stanford's Realtime Venture Design Lab (ReVeL), which seeks to improve the potential sustainability of new ventures by helping the founding team discover and articulate a compelling, unified theme based on their identity that inspires their stakeholders and the communities they serve.

WHAT GETS YOU UP IN THE MORNING?
"I want to change the way you think about leadership. Leadership is for men, women and children. It is for families, business and communities. It is for you to become an active participant in shaping your future."