Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Managing Director; SEAL Legacy Foundation; a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing educational assistance and support grants to families of wounded and fallen United States Navy SEALs. The Foundation was established in 2011 to preserve the SEAL legacy of no one left behind.

Former Regional Sales Director for Genzyme Biosurgery; January 2007 through October 2012

SEAL Operator, United States Navy from May 1993 through October 2005

Quote from COACH JUNE JONES, HEAD FOOTBALL COACH , SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
“I have had many, many speakers over the years, while coaching both in college and the NFL, but nobody had the impact that Mark had on my entire team and coaches. His team building exercises are “right on” for any company or athletic team that wants to be the best in what they are doing. He covers all the things that winners have to know. I am in full agreement that any team or company that does not implement Mark’s keys to winning, is not doing all it can to be the best. SMU will be a better team today because Mark shared with us his beliefs.”

Tuesday, May 13th, 2014

Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship (CNVE)
The Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship, a part of Mays Business School’s Department of Management, provides encouragement, education, networking and assistance to entrepreneurially-minded students, faculty and Texas businesses.

Aggie Angel Network
The Aggie Angel Network (AAN) is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing quality early-stage investment opportunities for accredited angel investors, and to assisting early-stage high-growth potential technology companies with fundraising and advisory services.

Startup Aggieland
Startup Aggieland is a student business accelerator that provides qualified students of all majors with a peer-led startup community of like-minded entrepreneurs and co-working spaces to explore game-changing business ideas. Texas A&M University does not take equity stakes in student startups. Students’ intellectual property is theirs to keep if developed in the accelerator.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Dr. Banks is Vice Chancellor for Engineering for The Texas A&M University System and Dean of the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. As Vice Chancellor, Banks oversees coordination and collaboration among the engineering, academic and research programs at universities throughout the A&M System, as well as three state agencies: the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI).

Banks also is TEES Director, overseeing research administration of more than 4,400 projects and $142.5 million in sponsored research awards.

As Dean of the Look College and holder of the Harold J. Haynes Dean’s Chair in Engineering, Banks leads one of the largest engineering schools in the country, with more than 11,000 students and nearly 400 faculty.

Banks was previously the Bowen Engineering Head for the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University and the Jack and Kay Hockema Professor at Purdue. She received her B.S.E. from the University of Florida, M.S.E. from the University of North Carolina, and Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Duke University.