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Mark has spent more than 20 years as a manager, product and market developer. Prior to helping to found Option Technologies Interactive, LLC, Mark wore a number of hats, including General Manager, for an international association with more than 200,000 members. He supervised functional teams involved with information technology, meetings, conventions, publications, volunteer development, member recruitment, member education, volunteer development and strategic planning. Mark earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation from the American Society of Association executives in 1985 and holds a bachelors degree in sociology and masters degree in business administration.
In 1989, Mark moved to the private sector as Chief Operating Officer for Stage America, Inc., a privately held production management company headed by Ray Franklin. He helped establish three sister companies and grew the core operations, sales, marketing and administrative functions to support an eight fold increase in annual volume. As part of these efforts, in 1991 Mark co-founded MeetingNet Interactive Systems, a provider of audience response technology for large corporate meetings. This firm created MeetingNet, a powerful MS Windows based multimedia presentation software package for audience interaction. Other MIS products included "SurveyMaster, a package used for organizational development surveys and MeetingNet DL, a multi-site training and distance-learning tool.
Mark currently serves as President/CEO for OTI and leads a staff of 40 who create products and services that make meetings more effective. You can contact him at 407-872-3333, by fax at 407-872-3330, or by email at mfite@optiontechnologies.com. | 