About Us
Mark D. Blair, CPA, CMA
As the owner of Marked4 Solutions, I am a global financial business leader with 25+ years of progressive business and finance experience focused on maximizing shareholder value through profitability driven initiatives, developing international business solutions, process reengineering and organization building. My proven leadership in financial management, strategy development, M&A, sales & marketing, manufacturing and business integration has resulted in career expanding responsibilities from Controller to CFO to General Manager to Board Member. This breadth in expertise, coupled with a background as a CPA, CMA & Industrial Engineer, has culminated into a holistic business approach to driving continuous improvement while managing and mitigating business risk. These opportunities have spanned companies with varying ownership structures of:
- Public companies,
- Investment capital owned
- Private equity owned
- Big 5 Public Accounting
Track Record of Success
- Restructured global treasury, risk management, financial reporting, and FP&A positioning a company for sale
- Conceived and led an expansion initiative into Asia increasing revenue by 75% over a 4-year period
- Led the financial and operational functions of a corporate development team in the negotiation and formation of two international joint ventures, positioning the company to increase revenue by 50%
- Developed, presented and received Board approval for a $30M manufacturing capacity expansion project driving 50% growth in capacity during a period of significant upside opportunity
- Managed an international business organization with full P&L responsibility spanning ten culturally diverse countries through challenging economic conditions in the global landscape
- Designed and globally implemented an Advanced ABC/Standard Cost system across 14 businesses for profitability standardization and production optimization
- Project manager for a divisional ERP and corporate HRMS system implementations
Education
University of Pittsburgh
- MS Industrial Engineering
- BS Accounting & Business Administration