Partner
Los Angeles

Mark joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Most recently Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com (NASDAQ: CRM) following its acquisition of Koral,where Mark was Founder and CEO. Prior to Koral, Mark was Founder and CEO of BuildOnline, the largest independent global content collaboration
company focused on the engineering and construction sectors,
which was acquired by SWORD Group (PARIS: SWP). Earlier in his career, Mark spent nearly ten years working for Accenture in Europe, Japan and the U.S.

Mark received a BA in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He grew up in the U.S. and is also a citizen of the UK.

In the current portfolio, Mark sits on the Boards of Ad.ly, Bedrock, Burstly, GumGum and Ring Revenue and is a Board Observer of Qualys.

Follow Mark on Twitter http://twitter.com/msuster

Read Mark’s Blog Both Sides of the Table about Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice