Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
Experienced entrepreneur and founder of two Inc 500/5000 companies, one on the list four times, both still in business. Founder of Zweig Group, a consulting, research, publishing, media, and training company serving the AEC industry. Founder or co-founder and/or part-owner of other businesses as well. Leading management and business expert in the architecture and engineering industry. Founder of Zweig Group, twice named to Inc 500 list, once on the Inc 5000 list of fastest-growing privately-held firms. Skilled in Strategic Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Start-ups, Leadership, Human Resources Management, Organization Structure, Ownership Transition, Financial Management, Recruiting, and Marketing. Entrepreneur in-Residence teaching new venture development and small business management—now in the newly-created Dept. of Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Innovation at The Sam M. Walton College of business since 2005. Have also taught as an adjunct in The Fay Jones School of Architecture. Partner in Janus Motorcycles, an entrepreneurial independent maker of hand built, small displacement motorcycles based in Goshen, Indiana. Board member, Miyamoto International, Inc. Real estate developer/investor/general contractor. Founder/Owner of Mark Zweig, Inc., an Inc 5000 design/build contracting company. Designer and builder of multiple award-winning residential and commercial projects. Owner and property manager of commercial, multi-family, and single-family properties. Podcast co-host of www.bigtalkaboutsmallbusiness.com. Author of “Confessions of an Entrepreneur” and 13 other books. Writer for The Zweig Letter. Contributor to The Walton College Insights and The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, as well as other publications. Speaker—have given keynotes and breakout sessions at a wide variety of professional and technical society conferences and meetings over the past 45 yrs, as well as hundreds of seminars throughout the US and Canada. Outside BOD Director/Board member for a variety of privately-held businesses and non-profits. Have served on at least a dozen boards as a director. Master of Business Administration - MBA focused in Marketing and Finance from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. BS in Business Administration from SIU as well. On the advisory board of SIUC COBA. Automobile and motorcycle enthusiast, w/wide-ranging tastes. Have owned over 400 cars and 300 motorcycles. Built custom vehicles and done prize-winning restorations. Father of four daughters and one stepdaughter, ranging from 14 to 38 yrs. old.
I teach two different entrepreneurship courses to a wide range of students at The Sam M. Walton College of Business at The University of Arkansas in Fayettevlle.
Investor/Board of Directors Member and Chief Operating Officer for Janus Motorcycles, makers of customizable small- and mid-displacement, lightweight, hand-built motorcycles. Janus is a privately-held growth company making products for intelligent, experienced, discerning motorcyclists, as well as people who may have never considered motorcycling prior to purchasing a Janus. Each bike is a hand-built work of art, with tens of thousands of combinations of colors and options. Janus Motorcycles have been featured on Jay Leno’s Garage, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Esquire, and more. The company has a cult-like following and a fantastic brand.
Zweig Group is the leading management consulting, research, and business education firm serving the AEC industry in North America and beyond. It is the only firm providing management expertise to this industry that has been on the Inc 500/5000 list of fastest-growing privately held companies four times
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Member of Board of Directors for this 300-person international structural engineering/disaster recovery firm.