Mark Seaton

Mark Seaton has extensive experience in sales, business development, and product management. Mark began their career in 1992 as a Sanitation Engineer (aka Garbage Collector) for Republic Services Inc. During their time at Georgia Tech, they worked as an Electric Vehicle Marketing Engineer for The Southern Company. In 1998, they moved to SEI Investments as a Product Manager. In 2005, they joined Cars.com as a Director, Advertising Sales & Business Development, Manager, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, and Product Manager. In 2014, they were Head of Sales for Oracle | Datalogix, which was acquired by Oracle (ORCL). In 2016, they became VP, Automotive & Financial Services at Oracle, where they built a data-driven marketing business and lead sales teams. In 2019, they joined Link3D as EVP of Global Sales & Marketing, which was later acquired by Materialise (MTLS). Currently, they are SVP Sales and Business Development for Smartwyre, a software company that eliminates financial uncertainty to drive profit and enable competitive pricing for retailers, distributors, and manufacturers.

Mark Seaton received their Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology between 1993 and 1998. Mark then went on to receive their Master of Business Administration from DePaul Driehaus College of Business between 2004 and 2005, specializing in Strategy Execution & Valuation, Entrepreneurship.