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Mark Stryker

I am the virtual Chief Growth Officer to an amazing portfolio of companies and their teams. I've helped three companies create over $500 million in market cap each. Now working on number 4!

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2023

  • President

    2024

  • Member of the Board of Advisors

    2023 - 2024

  • Executive Vice President

    2017

    I work with some amazing companies in the Leverage Health portfolio to help align and launch them to success in the healthcare marketplace.

  • Limited Partner

    2022

  • Managing Director

    2017

    I work with amazing portfolio companies to help them navigate and thrive in the healthcare industry. Together we pair their unique vision with amazing domain expertise to launch them into the market.

2013 - 2017

  • Senior Director Business Development & Finance

    2013 - 2017

    Florida Blue (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida) is a health solutions company. That means we´re concerned with the whole health life of Floridians. Our focus is on the person, not just the insurance plan, or the financing of care. Florida Blue's members have made us the #1 insurer in the state. We achieved an A+ Rating from the S&P in 2013 and grew membership dramatically by educating diverse Floridians about the Affordable Care Act. As Senior Director, Business Development and Finance, I lead teams to understand our members, how they live, and what they really need. Naturally, financing is still a big part of that, but Florida Blue is really more about a broader, yet more personal way of working; building valued relationships that can make a real difference in the communities we serve. We´re here to help Floridians with every aspect of their health and wellness, from the major challenges to the everyday moments in between. Our expanding range of high quality products and services allows people to easily get what they need, when they need it. We strive to become part of their everyday health conversations and to become a trusted health partner offering guidance and support.

2013 - 2017

  • Chief Growth Officer and Chief Financial Officer

    2013 - 2017

    At GuideWell Connect, I drive the strategic sales team as we work to drive adoption of advanced, data-driven sales, marketing and customer engagement capabilities across the health care industry. I'm responsible for both top-line and bottom-line corporate performance. GuideWell Connect helps health insurers and health care organizations to understand, engage and serve more consumers at a critical time in health care. Bringing more organized and optimized health solutions to the public through the support and effort of an amazing team of six hundred professionals is an absolute joy. Transforming what had been components and cost centers of a large, single state organization into a competitive engine delivering amazing results to Clients across the country is an absorbing and gratifying professional challenge. And as always - the Team drives the WIN! A passionate competitor on the race track and in the office, I consistently move our business to “The Racing Line” – the intersection of possibility and execution. By positioning ourselves at the Racing Line, GuideWell Connect has created opportunities and sold revolutionary solutions with striking success. The mission: to mobilize our competitive spirit and tremendous experience, enabling explosive value creation. The focus: positive change, creating value from opportunity, and employing courageous imagination to ensure that our Clients are always our biggest fans.

  • Member of the Board of Directors

    2014 - 2017

    For over 30 years the Florida Venture Forum has helped elevate the success of Florida entrepreneurs and their ventures by offering expert counsel, educational advice, managerial assistance, and by bringing together key stakeholders from across the business and investment spectrum that can help the achieve their goals. The Florida Venture Forum is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization that is supported locally by private companies, service providers, venture capitalists and academic institutions. Together with my fellow board members we are dedicated to challenging the FVF to extend and expand its position as the preeminent medium for facilitating interaction and awareness amongst the key constituents in the value creation cycle for entrepreneurs in Florida. We challenge the organization to always think differently in engaging and assisting those we serve.

2012 - 2013

  • Chief Strategy Officer and Financial Operations Principal

    2012 - 2013

    Transcend Capital is a FINRA broker-dealer focused on providing competitive advantage to our institutional and financial industry clients through our best-of-breed technology, brokerage solutions and trading software. Our breadth of both financial market access and our suite of technology platforms offer unrivaled flexibility, performance and economy, and forms the cornerstone of our commitment to building unrivaled partnerships with our clients.

  • Principal and Chief Operating Officer

    2008 - 2012

    Extreme Technologies is a vibrant, talent acquisition-oriented company dedicated to Total Client Excellence. ETI is founded on the principle that our long term success is achieved by supporting and elevating the success of our Clients. We are Trusted Solutions Providers for our Clients, and our uncompromising dedication to fulfilling each Client’s unique needs, and exceeding their expectations, make us a one-of-a-kind partner in the industry. Our strategic and technical depth-of-field, combined with the quality of our human resource base, means we are able to put high-impact solutions in place with minimal lead time. Our flexibility and agility allows ETI to individually tailor these solutions, and evolve our engagement programs in lock-step with the needs of our Clients.

  • CEO

    2007 - 2008

    Strykmore, Inc. is a technology incubator developing next-generation interactive marketing and client analytics and operations platforms focused on the financial services industry. The Company's technology initiatives are developed on the Microsoft product stack and are geared and proof of concept of the Internet 2.0 to 3.0 initiatives.