Mark De L. Thompson

Mark brings more than 20 years of deep experience as a marketer, business development executive and general manager. Mark has been a Senior Vice President and General Manager at Ameritech - now part of AT&T, Dell and Microsoft - as well as CEO of a Carlyle Group PE venture . Having been a senior leader at leading hardware and software companies, Mark has an exceptionally well-rounded view of the way technology is shaping business and their world. Mark is skilled at capturing adjacent markets for business growth.

As a business development executive, he has created over $1B in new venture revenue via acquisitions and alliances. Notably among these was Ameritech’s entry into the field of security monitoring which resulted in Ameritech becoming the number two player in that industry. As Senior Vice President of Marketing for Dell’s Small and Medium Business division, Mark was responsible for over $8B in revenue and a $350M marketing budget. During his tenure he and his team reduced marketing cost per unit sold by more than 50% while nearly doubling share and improving brand perception. He also created Dell’s Solution Provider Direct program which the Wall Street Journal called “a beautiful strategy". Familiar with large and small scale organizational transformation, as Chief Marketing Officer at Teledanmark, the Danish national telecom, Mark was one of a team of a dozen expats that helped turn a $4B privatization investment into $10B.

Named by Business to Business magazine as one of the top 20 B2B marketers in North America, Mark started his career at the Boston Consulting Group holds an MBA from the Wharton School, teaches Taichi in his free time and is originally from Zimbabwe.