Mark Beck

Mark Beck is as an accomplished leader with demonstrated capabilities in both strategy and execution. Mark earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and Japanese Language from Pacific University, and an MBA from Harvard University.

He spent 18 years in management roles of increasing responsibility at Corning Incorporated, where he provided strategic and commercial leadership to Corning’s Display Technologies division.  He also led the development and commercialization of EAGLE2000™, Corning’s best-selling product of all time. He then led the Life Sciences Division through a major transformation including several acquisitions.  Mark’s work at Corning culminated in his appointment as Executive Vice President of the Environmental Technologies and Life Science business group ($2 billion).  In addition, Mark served on the Board of Directors for Dow-Corning ($7B) from 2010 to 2014.

In 2014, he joined Danaher Corporation as Executive Vice President and leader of the Water Quality Group and the Dental platform ($5 billion).  At Danaher Mark learned the power of LEAN, completed numerous acquisitions, and helped set the course for greater associate engagement.

In 2015, he led JELD-WEN, Inc. ($4B) as President and Chief Executive Officer.  During his tenure at JELD-WEN, the company doubled cash flow, completed 10 acquisitions, and improved margins by over 100 bps each year.  He led the company through a very successful IPO and two follow-on offerings.

Tony Butler

Tony Butler is a numbers guy with entrepreneurial roots. For most of his career he has applied his skills primarily in the realm of commercial real estate securitization as well as finance and investments.

He attended Brigham Young University where he earned a BS and MS in statistics, attended one year of law school then finished his schooling by earning an MBA.

He worked in New York in the growing securitization industry where he was involved with all aspects of the securitization of 12b-1 mutual fund fees (structuring, origination/marketing, and servicing). Through his career he worked as an investment analyst, in export trade finance, and risk aggregation and management.

As managing director at First Union/Wachovia. Most of his work was related to Commercial Real Estate Securitization (CMBS). Over the course of his 11 years with the bank he was responsible for structuring and hedging loans for CMBS execution, led the structured products research team for CMBS and CRE CDOs, and played a key role on the Global Real Estate Strategies team which had responsibility for proactively managing and monitoring the entire bank’s commercial real estate allocations and risk levels. Developed and implemented research based strategies to maximize revenues while minimizing risk.

From 2009 to 2018 Tony worked for RAIT Financial Trust where they originated and securitized CMBS loans and pioneered the CRE CLO market for commercial real estate bridge loans.

Shon Hiatt

Shon Hiatt is a professor of business administration at the University of Southern California. His expertise is in business strategy, regulatory affairs, and business sustainability in domestic and international contexts. Prior to joining USC, he was on faculty at Harvard Business School.

His research has received numerous national and international scholarly recognitions, including Kauffman Foundation Fellowships, and the Academy of Management and ARCS Emerging Sustainability Scholar Awards. Shon graduated cum laude from Brigham Young University in Spanish and public administration and received post-graduate degrees in management from Cornell University.