Mark Searle is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and instructor from the US. He currently serves as Lecturer, Industry Fellow & Head of Mentoring Excellence at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) at UC Berkeley and as Managing Director of the Innovation Acceleration Group (IAG). During more than 20 years as co-founder, CEO or COO of eight different early-stage and growth-stage startups, Mark worked across multiple industry sectors including enterprise software, cyber security, big data analytics, consumer-facing internet marketing, online dynamic image hosting & delivery, artisanal food distribution & retail, vertical farming / agro tech, 3D printing / rapid prototyping and more. He holds an MBA from Harvard, an AB cum laude from Princeton and studied in the Ph.D. program in English at UC Berkeley. Mark was named a Distinguished Graduate Student Instructor in the UC Berkeley English Department, received the Richard H. Holton Teaching Fellow Award from the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business, and was named Best Instructor for Fall 2021 and Fall 2022 at SCET. In his younger days he was a member of the US Alpine Ski Team Downhill Training Group.