G2Planet Executive Team

Mark is the Founder and CEO of G2Planet, and is one of the original thought leaders in event management technology solutions—inventing the concept of Data Driven Enterprise Event Planning (DEEP), which is still being used today. Prior to G2Planet he was responsible for new business development at NAVTEQ, pioneering map data-driven applications. Mark also served as the VP of Sales and Marketing for startup Athletic Technologies. Mark has forged long-standing client relationships with corporations like Microsoft, Federal Express, Oracle, Toyota, HP, Intel, IBM, and Nissan in addition to Channel partnerships.

After 26 years in the Bay Area, Mark and his wife recently relocated back to the Twin Cities where they are raising their 4 children, a Huskie / Australian herder dog, 6 chickens, 3 turtles and a hamster.

Rick is a lifelong technologist, enterprise software developer and business entrepreneur. He started his career over 30 years ago at Lawson Software, which was founded by his father, uncle and two associates. At Lawson, Rick was a member of several ERP application development teams. He also had the honor of being a key member of the Advanced Technology group, a skunkworks team developing next generation application solutions. It was there Rick started innovating software for corporate event marketing, which he discovered was his passion. Lawson was acquired by Infor in 2011, for $2 billion.

Rick lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and is a devoted father to his 6 children. He is amazingly adept at being in multiple places at one time including hockey and football games, and karate tournaments.

Chris has over 25 years providing strategic financial management and business accounting services to corporations. At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Chris served as Sr. Director of Innovation, Director Commercial Strategy and Director Business Strategy in the Enterprise Strategy Office. Previously, Chris worked in various finance manager, financial analyst and accounting roles at Cargill, Wells Fargo, Ecolab and Northwest Airlines. Chris brings a growth oriented CFO mindset to G2Planet where he oversees all financial management activities.

Chris lives in St. Paul, Minnesota where he is a father to 4 boys and an avid and very accomplished triathlete having competed in several Ironman Triathlons.

Eric is a career SaaS and enterprise technology professional, whose roles have spanned Marketing, Growth, Go-to-Market and Strategy. Prior to G2Planet Eric was the VP Growth and GTM at Brightcove, a Technology Emmy award-winning online video and virtual event platform used by marketers, communications professionals and media organizations across the globe. Eric also spent 3.5 years as the Chief Marketing Officer for Qumu, and was the SVP of Marketing at Solera—a $6.5B private equity rollup of the automotive technology industry.

Eric lives with his wife and three kids in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he enjoys fat biking, backyard grilling and restoring old homes in his spare time.