Mark Phillips

After a career as mechanical engineer in the medical industry designing orthopedic products followed by time in the aerospace Boeing/ McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company as a producibility engineer building the Apache helicopter and C-17 Air force Cargo aircraft I transitioned into management in the Military Survivability (armor) Products industry. Starting as a Program Manager for special seats that are designed to protect soldiers in vehicles against injury from mine or IED blasts, I then transitioned into the General Manager of that same startup company. Within 3 years of running that company I had grown annual revenues in the $70-$100 Million range. I was promoted to Corporate Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development of the parent company over seeing 5 divisions. After 8 years and way too much stress, I decided to try my hand at consulting in an ...