About the Authors
Kenneth H. Marks, CM&AA,b is the founder and a managing partner of High Rock Partners, Inc., providing strategic consulting, investment banking, and interim leadership services to emerging growth and middle-market companies. As CEO he founded a high-growth electronics company and led and sold a technology business to a Fortune 500 buyer. As adviser, he has worked with managers and board members to develop and implement growth, financing, turnaround, and exit strategies in over two dozen companies. Marks’ past positions include president of JPS Communications, Inc., a fast-growth technology subsidiary of the Raytheon Company, and president/CEO of an electronics manufacturer that he founded and grew to $22 million.
Mr. Marks created and teaches an MBA elective titled “Financing Early Stage and Middle-Market Companies” at North Carolina State University; and created and teaches “Managing Emerging Growth Companies,” an MBA elective, at the Hult International Business School in Boston (formerly the Arthur D. Little School of Management) in connection with Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. He is the author of the publication Strategic Planning for Emerging Growth Companies: A Guide for Management (Wyndham Publishing, 1999).
Mr. Marks was a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO); the founding YPO Sponsor of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (then YEO and now EO) in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Chapter; a member of the Association ...
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