About Mark
Mark has a decade of experience helping high-tech, semiconductor, and industrial companies tackle their challenges in strategy, operations, and marketing. He is based in San Francisco and has served clients in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
Examples of Mark's recent client work include the following:
- helping a semiconductor integrated device manufacturer (IDM) with an operations-transformation program that involved supply-chain redesign and optimization of fab operations
- working with a 3,000-employee R&D organization on a performance-improvement program, including the creation of an R&D strategy, partnership development, lean-out of R&D operations, and R&D budgeting and planning
- supporting the development and execution of a multiyear manufacturing and corporate strategy for a leading semiconductor company, resulting in a multibillion-dollar spin-out of its manufacturing operations
- supporting an intensive 6-month fab-operations turnaround—which achieved a 20 percent reduction in wafer costs—at a US-based semiconductor IDM
- advising a leading radio-frequency/wireless-semiconductor player on merger integration, including consolidation of product and R&D programs across the United States, Europe, and Asia
- counseling two semiconductor IDMs on segment and product-strategy development for analog, mixed-signal, and embedded products
Mark first joined McKinsey in 1998. In 2010, he left for a two-year role as head of strategy and subsequently senior vice president of commercial operations for Amyris, a renewable-products company. He rejoined McKinsey in 2012. Mark holds an MBA from Stanford University as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees in engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Past experience
| Amyris |
Senior vice president of commercial operations |
| Ford Motor Company |
Various engineering roles in manufacturing and development |
Education
| Stanford University |
MBA |
| Selwyn College, University of Cambridge |
MEng and BA in manufacturing engineering |