Mr. Marks is a Principal and Managing Partner of High Rock Partners, Inc. (formerly Marks & Company Inc.) providing strategic consulting, investment banking and interim leadership services.
Marks' past positions included President of JPS Communications, Inc., a fast growth technology subsidiary of the Raytheon Company and President / CEO of an electronics manufacturer that he founded and grew to $22 million. He was a director for a RTP, NC area investment bank focused on raising capital for early stage and middle-market companies during the late 1990’s.
He has been involved as management, advisor or board member with over a dozen and a half emerging growth and middle market companies ranging from a venture backed software startup, INC. 500 staffing firm, environmental construction company, safety products distributor….to a middle-market insurance services provider.
He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) alumni; the founding YPO Sponsor of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO formerly YEO) in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Chapter; a member of the Association for Corporate Growth; a member of the board of directors of the North Carolina Technology Association and chairman of the board of directors of the Partnership for Defense Innovation (the parent of the Defense & Security Technology Accelerator).
Mr. Marks created and teaches a graduate level course at Boston College in connection with the Hult International Business School in Boston (formerly the Arthur D. Little School of Management) titled "Managing Emerging Growth Companies". In addition, he teaches a graduate level elective titled "Financing Early Stage & Middle-Market Companies" at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. In addition, Marks lectures at Loyola University in Chicago as part of the Merger & Acquisition certification program.
