Welcome. Thanks For Stopping By.
I am a passionate early-stage innovator with 12 years of executive experience, Full-stack development expertise, 5 awarded Patents and a dedication to supporting others.
I'm also a novice artist.
6
Companies Founded or Co-Founded
An entrepreneur at heart, not for the feint of heart mind!
12
Years Of Executive Leadership
Leading 4 companies as CEO, CTO or Chief Strategy Officer
5
US Patents Authored and Awarded
Authored IP in business messaging innovations.
$15MM
Top-Tier Venture Funding Secured
Series Seed, Series A and Series B Financings.
Sections
Projects and Investments
Charitable Pursuits
Reads, Thoughts, Listens
My Early Life
Born and raised in Greater London. Son of Paul and Susan, brother to Paul, John and Alex. Husband of Julie. Father of Stella, Seb, Sam, Jurgen and Miya.
Grandson of Group Captain Peter Matthews, DFC Queens Commendation. (Squadron leader, Battle of Britain, WW II). I made these works to tell his story to my children and in his memory.
Boston University
Boston, MA
BA History and a BS, Finance.
Marlborough College
Marlborough, UK
I received 12 O-Levels and 3 A-Levels and was captain, varsity soccer.
National Tennis Champion
Bermuda, 1985.
I received sponsorship from Prince and attended Harry Hopman IN FLA.
“Having known Mark Slater for about a decade now, i have tracked his progress as an entrepreneur and CEO. He has the vision, drive, the intelligence (emotional and intellectual), and the talent to create a world beating company. “
Scott Johnson, Partner, Blitzscaling Ventures.
Career Highlights
Skills and Awards
Patents:
Skills:
Languages:
Swift, C++
Python
Node.js
French
Tools
Xcode
Mapbox
Pinpoint
Stripe API
Lottie
Firebase
Webflow
Velo
Software
Figma
Adobe
Wondershare
Notion
The Skills list is a representative sample and in no way a statement of completeness.
“Mark has been an indispensable part of the team from day one. We owe all of our foundational, technical and business progress to him.
He designed the App, Wrote the code, managed the engineering team and defined the product vision with super-human speed and thought.”
MIke Landers & Darren Orr. Co-Founders of Capsule Technologies Group Inc
Projects and Investments
Charitable Pursuits
Reading, Listening, Thinking, Writing
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Recent Projects
Cobbles Inc
#Co-Founder #Investor #CTO #Product #design
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Capsule Technologies Group Inc.
#Co-Founder #Investor #CTO #Product #design
Blockchain media innovation.
Allergy Release Technique LLC
#Consultant #Advisor
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The Not Public Company Inc
#Co-Founder #Investor #CTO #Product #design #Patents
A patented persistent recognition technology that re-imagines how we communicate.
City Sports Programs Inc (501c3)
#Co-Founder #501c3 #design #Technology
Youth Sports community program established in Boston during Covid.
Elephant Inc
2021-Current
My Studio for creative work, consulting relationships, angel investments and all manor of new tinkering around technology themes i am obsessed with. You can read more about what these are here.
Principal
I Write the Code, build all design and UX frameworks, Hand-Make all of the ART, Video stories and supporting brand. I manage the backend and payments infrastructure for 3 companies today, processing close to $10MM per year.
FazeClan
2019-2021
FazeClan is the leading E-sports organization in the world today. Comprised of businesses that manage teams, brands, e-commerce, Content & licensing. Wanderset was merged into FazeClan in 2019 to power commerce channels engaging with its network reach of over 500M active users.
Post Acquisition Integration lead
COO and Post-Merger Integration lead managing the onboarding of a startup team of 15 in to a slow moving media business with over 120 Employees at the time.
$180M Across 4 Rounds
Wanderset Inc
2017-2019
Youth Culture E-Com platform publishing, the latest in street fashion from hundreds of Brands (their APIs) delivering fashion to millions of young fashion forward teens. This was Karmaloop without the inventory risk.
Co-Founder and COO
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer. 18 month whirlwind from start to finish resulting in FazeClan acquiring the company.
$1.8M Series Seed. Acquired by FazeClan.
Personal Seed Investment at founding $50K
Pingup Inc
2012-2016
Local Commerce API aggregating local availability from millions of SMBs through scheduling software providers and powering native booking buttons on major publishing properties like YP, Yahoo, Facebook and Google Search.
Co-Founder and CEO
Co- Founder, CEO, Author of IP
$9M Series A Financing from Avalon Ventures, Rick Levandov and Brady Bohrmann
Karmaloop
2001-2006
Early Entrant to street fashion E-com, bringing breaking trends to the masses unbounded by physical location. At its peak, Karmaloop had an annual revenue run rate of $180M and over 300 employees before an epic collapse in 2011.
Founding Member, VP Business Development
Business Development
$30M Series B Institutional Financing - July 2008
Personal Seed Investment 2003 $100K
CMGi
1997-2000.
Pioneering Investor and operator of over 97 companies at the dawn of the commercial Internet. At its height, NASD: CMGi and its @Ventures affiliates and wholly owned and operated companies had a market capitalization of $30 Billion. Read About CMGi's history here.
Senior Analyst
As part of the Merger integration team, I supported the executive teams of acquired companies in strategically landscaping, executing & operating within the vast network of CMGi.
$30 Billion. (circa 2000)
Professional History
Ways To Connect
I'm always up for chatting. My interests are currently focused on the next opportunity.