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Mark is a futurist, future architect, impact investor, strategist and serial entrepreneur. His early career began as a senior executive, risk manager and bond trader on Wall Street working for some of the largest banks in the world. He later co-founded one of the first VR companies, developed the first online innovation network focused on interdisciplinary collaboration in the US and in Canada. As a media and technology producer and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley he served on the Board of Directors for the Buckminster Fuller Institute and the MIT Press published Leonardo Journal.

An early pioneer in social innovation, social entrepreneurship and impact investing, he co-founded the largest global impact investment conference and movement to build the impact economy - the Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP) - which continues to gather 2,000 social entrepreneurs and impact investors annually since 2008, jumpstarting what would become a $1.5 trillion sector now commonly referred to as Impact Investing.

Mark founded beaming in 1997 and has been practicing future architecture ever since working with incredible partners, collaborators and friends from around the world, including family offices, wealth managers, NGO’s, non-profits, start-ups and early stage businesses, , corporations, universities and the public sector. Future Architecture begins by listening deeply, revealing insights and systemic acupressure points, world building and prototyping shared futures leveraging regenerative practices, creative design and technology. Most importantly our practice takes a living systems approach, building trust, enabling human potential to thrive by leveraging regenerative tools and frameworks , leading to the development of key assets and IP.

beaming also has a long history of convening and the development of intimate immersive experiences, virtual environments, lectures, performances, networks, co-working spaces, music festivals, salons impact investor conferences and more. In Oaxaca Mexico he co-founded Hub Oaxaca, now a global network of over one hundred co-working spaces for social entrepreneurs, TEDx Oaxaca and CATAPULTA!, a social innovation music festival drawing 5,000 youth attendees and some of the greatest musicians in Latin America to champion DIY innovation and entrepreneurship.

Our partners include C3 Consensus, the Stanford Center for Design Research, Culturebanq, Amoofy, Foundation for Regeneration and One Thriving Planet.