Mark is the Founder and Managing Partner of Seabeck Group, parent of Degree 37 LLC.. He is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur with a world-class leadership background in creating value and achieving “industry firsts” as a senior executive at category leaders like McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, and Blockbuster. He was also CEO at Camping World before transitioning into Private Equity. Mark’s visionary management approach has effectively translated into the creation of new multi- national corporate launches, new global market entries, and new international operations strategies that have produced billions of dollars in top-line growth and profitability in more than 60 countries.

Mark’s global track record of successfully creating new business concepts, developing new markets, and establishing new and creative operational formats built his reputation as an industry pioneer. His expertise in achieving unprecedented growth, while dramatically reducing development cost and improving ROI in the operations processes is well known, as is his extensive background in the utilization of technology to dramatically improve business performance. Mark has significant financial M&A experience and over the past decade he has advised private equity groups on the buying and selling of companies and advises municipalities, developers and collegiate and professional sports franchises on new construction, renovations, and large-scale master developments.

David has a deep passion for technology and over 20 years’ experience in the engineering, deployment, and operations of scalable and securer technology services across a wide range of technology platforms, including Global Telecommunications Platforms, High Performance Computing platforms for Research and Development, Fortune 50 Enterprise environments and Large-scale analytics and machine learning systems deployed on Microsoft, Google and Amazons cloud services.

As an early adopter of cloud technology solutions, he has helped numerous software product and enterprise companies design, develop and deploy scalable cloud native applications meeting some of the most stringent uptime and Cybersecurity requirements. These solutions were instrumental in helping these institutions in achieving global scale and extremely profitable business models.

In the last three years he has become very focused on helping organizations develop advanced application capabilities using both Narrow and General AI solutions and enabling these applications to be more distributed through the use of Block Chain technologies.

  He holds Professional Certifications in Machine Learning, Artificial intelligence, Business Finance and a Masters in Software Engineering from SMU Lyle School of Engineering.

He has raised nine children and his hobbies are skydiving and spending as much time as life allows with his wife and five grandchildren.

Steve is a marketing and communications professional with over 25 years’ experience in all phases of c-suite strategic management.

In his professional career, he has held positions of increasing responsibility for the Coca-Cola Company, IMG and both the Texas A&M and University of Texas systems. While in Atlanta, he advanced through the brand management team to run the world’s largest brand, Coca-Cola, led all bottler and marketing programs for Coca-Cola in the UK and Ireland and ran Worldwide Sports during the Salt Lake City Olympics and Japan/Korea World Cup.

At IMG, as the SVP and Managing Director of the Stadium & Arena Group, he led the largest stadium redevelopment project in the world, Wembley National Stadium. It should be noted that he led the initial research into the potential for PSLs in the UK and then, launched a sales and CRM team that generated over $600mm in initial upfront revenues for the project.

Finally, as the first CMO in higher education at Texas A&M, he developed brand standards, a professional licensing program, core values and centralized the communications structure. He was promoted to Vice Chancellor of marketing for the TAMU system in 2012 and led the strategic decision process for the Board of Regents leading to the move from the Big 12 to the SEC. It has been called the “Hundred Year” decision.

J.D. is a senior software and services executive with a deep software development, delivery, and sales background. He builds visions, companies, teams, solutions, and relationships. A serial entrepreneur since he was a teen he has experienced and overcome many obstacles on his way to achieving incredible success all with his personal capital at-risk. This journey not only required traits like intelligence, work-ethic, integrity, and teamwork it demanded guts, passion, persuasion, and commitment. J.D. thrives in environments where his multi-faceted talents and traits are leveraged to achieve business objectives and establish trusted lifelong relationships.

His accomplishments Include:

Building a forecast based store replenishment system for a $6B grocery chain.

Pharmacy adjudication system for a regional claims processor.

Long distance adjudication system for top tier long distance company.

Leading small and large (100+) teams and organizations.

Founding and building three technology companies with one significant financial exit.