Mark Fackler

Mark Fackler is foremost a husband and father. Mark has been married to his wife Kathy since 1987. His two boys, Steven and David, were born in 1990 and 1992. Mark’s number one priority is his family. They live in La Jolla, California and Durango, Colorado where Mark will be learning how to sustainably harvest their trees to make craftsman furniture.
Mark was born in 1958 in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He spent most of his childhood there until moving to Scottsdale, Arizona, where he finished his senior year of high school. He attended the University of Arizona and graduated with a BA in 1980. He majored in Economics and minored in Computer Science and Psychology.
After graduation, Mark programmed computers for military and space applications. Three years later, in 1984, Mark founded Stellcom, a hardware and software services company. Over the next 16 years, Mark grew the company guided by the Core Values of honesty, work/life balance, and continual improvement. In 1999, Mark raised venture capital and private money in a financing round to expand Stellcom at a faster pace. In 2000, Mark hired a new CEO, sold some of his equity in a second round of private equity financing and retired. Following retirement, Mark became Vistage Group Chair after 12 years of being a Vistage Group Member.
Mark is the recently retired President and board member of TKF (www.tkf.org). Currently he sits on the Finance, Audit and Board Development Committee. TKF is dedicated to a world free from youth violence. Mark is Treasurer and sits on the Board of Directors of Saferparks (www.saferparks.org) an organization dedicated to amusement park safety. Mark enjoys training for Ironman distance triathlons and is learning Spanish.