Mark is an award-winning creative who believes in building brands through smart, endearing work. In addition to being a skilled, detail-oriented art director and a capable writer, he is a well-rounded strategic thinker and problem solver who relishes a challenging assignment.

He spent 22 years at The Richards Group, the nation’s largest independently-owned branding shop. His agency experience includes work for some of America’s best-known brands—Hyundai, Comcast, The Home Depot—as well as Texas-based entities like The Dallas Morning News and TXU Energy. Mark has worked extensively in the healthcare category, having led efforts for M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic and Scott & White Healthcare.

More recently Mark has been a leader on the in-house creative team for Dallas-based Half Price Books, the nation’s third-largest bookseller with 125 locations around the U.S. His work for HPB has been recognized by Print magazine, the In-House Agency Forum, HOW and the Dallas Addys.