Discovering that he liked to be behind the scenes and not in front of them, Mark went on to work for political campaigns and non-profits in Georgia, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC. After honing his skills in the field, Mark ran Pat Toomey’s 2010 U.S. Senate race. Defying the odds, Toomey went on to defeat Joe Sestak and flip the seat back to the GOP.

After the Toomey campaign, Mark co-founded ColdSpark with Mike DeVanney. ColdSpark has now grown to a team of nineteen talented professionals who have worked in 39 different states.

In the 2016 cycle, Mark served as a strategist for Senator Marco Rubio’s Presidential SuperPAC as well as General Consultant for Pat Toomey’s 2016 successful re-election campaign which was at that point the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history.

Throughout the years, the public affairs, crisis communications, and issue management practices at ColdSpark has grown to work with many Fortune 500 companies. Mark has led efforts in the financial services, energy, healthcare, and education sectors.

In the 2018 cycle, Mark served as lead strategist for Governor Bruce Rauner’s re-election campaign that became the most expensive Gubernatorial race of the cycle. Mark and the ColdSpark team also elected three new members to Congress in one of the worst years for the Republican Party in modern history.