Mark Jaster
President, Strategyn Enterprise Solutions
Locale: Philadelphia, PA
Biography: Mark has over 20 years of experience guiding organizations through strategy, business model change, and enterprise process and technology transformations as both an operating manager / executive within leading corporations and as a strategic management consultant. This includes over eight years of senior experience in the retail financial services industry with roles at Advanta Bank Corp., Citigroup, BankOne and Chase Manhattan Bank, and more than12 years of experience managing engineering development programs and quality systems at GE, NASA and the United States Air Force.
Mark’s expertise includes business domains as diverse as retail banking products, customer loyalty systems, enterprise customer information systems, medical devices, robots, aircraft and space-based systems. His functional expertise includes marketing strategy, product development, business development, strategic partnerships, intellectual property, innovation management, information systems applications, and business process development. This broad and senior experience helps Mark quickly diagnose problems in traditional approaches that hinder enterprise growth and conceive fresh insights to deliver business breakthroughs.
Currently he is helping Fortune 500 clients transform their enterprise-level approach to innovation through Strategyn’s Program for Innovation and leading the company’s venture in the innovation management enterprise software market.
Mark graduated cum laude from Duke University with a BSE in biomedical engineering, and holds a master’s degree in engineering from Stanford University in a joint program of the Graduate Schools of Engineering and Business. He has expertise in Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma, Quality Function Deployment and statistical-based management methods.
Personal: Married with one child. I used to scuba dive, sky dive, travel, enjoy photography, draw, play lacrosse, golf and ride bikes. Now I mostly scheme about world domination through ODI, admire my son and work too much.
One Thing People Don’t Know About Me: I helped save the Hubble telescope.
Quote: I have two. “There’s lies, damn lies, and statistics,” from Mark Twain. And “If I had asked them what they had wanted, they would have said faster horses,” by Henry Ford.
Most Significant Accomplishment: Launching Strategyn Enterprise Solutions.
Favorite Vacation: Pretending to be Jack Kerouac in reverse – a cross country trek from Palo Alto to Washington where I hiked Yosemite and the Grand Canyon, found a California road not traveled since stage coaches (or at least since the last Lone Ranger episode) – and survived (barely). Voyeured the naked spectacle of the Milky Way from the top of a VW in the deserts of Nevada, tracked phantoms of Anasazi in Mesa Verde and gamblers in Durango, and then found Route 66 isn’t as romantic as it sounds.