Mark S. Benak
2022 ALI Fellow
Mark Benak brings to ALI deep startup and product development experience. He joined the executive team of industrial intelligence software firm Uptake Technologies upon its acquisition of Asset Performance Technologies, a SaaS startup where he was CEO. Earlier Mark was a life science and biotech startup executive after beginning his career as a research engineer at Daimler-Benz in Germany.
Mark is the chairman of the Sandia Foundation, a provider of higher education scholarships and funding supporting the wellbeing of children in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has served on a number of committees at the Albuquerque Community Foundation, a prominent public charity, including current service on the foundation’s impact investing and social giving committees.