Mark Zadell is an executive financial and operations professional and a TechCXO Finance Practice Partner. He is called on by Boards, investors, and senior management teams to assist as an on-demand CFO to lead mergers and acquisitions, financial planning and analysis, and investor communications. He believes in ensuring commercial alignment with strategy, and creating transparency on key value drivers for all stakeholders. As a strong communicator and strategic thinker, Mark empowers finance and accounting teams to create value and facilitate the strategic objectives of a business.
His key roles and accomplishments include:
CFO, Endeavor Business Media– Mark helped grow company revenues by 30% to $160M through 12 acquisitions for this B2B media, marketing, and events company. Mark led financial diligence and QoE work, modified M&A deal terms that yielded substantial savings, drove general capital raising activities, including an $80 million debt financing, and led pricing efforts that yielded an estimated $2 million in margin. In addition, Mark expanded the usage and breadth of financial and operational KPIs for greater commercial accountability.
CFO, Nixon Power Services – Mark’s focus was enabling growth and scalability for this $150 million generator distribution company. In addition to overseeing finance functions, he oversaw IT, Continuous Improvement, and HR functions. Mark built a high-performing corporate team of 25, while providing technology and financial roadmaps to achieve growth and margin goals (25% revenue growth and 2% points of service margin expansion). He also worked closely with Sales on standardizing contract terms, pricing initiatives, and ensuring access to capital to enable large jobs with substantial revenues.
FP&A Senior Director, Change Healthcare – For this healthcare IT company — now part of Optum — Mark served as the Finance lead for Revenue Cycle Management ($300 mil in revenues) businesses, with P&L co-responsibility.
Finance Leader, Genworth Financial Inc. – Mark was the lead finance executive for U.S. Life division Operations and IT functions of this Fortune 500 insurance company. In his cross-company and business unit interactions, he developed capital spend evaluation and tracking processes on $40M in investments to encourage constant innovation. He also worked with corporate management to sell the operations to an external buyer (Pacific Life).
Mark has also held leadership positions with Flippin, Bruce & Porter, Calyon Securities, Triene Inc, and Bank of America.
Mark holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Finance degree from Bowling Green State University, and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.