Mark has over 25 years of experience in the development and implementation of strategic corporate and industrial sports medicine programs, wellness, and injury and illness prevention plans. He has also trained amateur and professional athletes and teams.
In 1983, Mark began his entrepreneurial journey with his first company, Progressive Fitness, which conducted onsite fitness programs for hospitals and corporations. In 1986, Mark opened his first fitness center in Harrisburg, PA and also developed a new wellness program for Bell Atlantic entitled Corporate Health and Fitness Network, a telephonic health and fitness hotline for Bell Atlantic’s 85,000 employees nationally. Corporate Health and Fitness Network also supplied coaching and fitness programs and fitness facilities to many Pennsylvania corporations including Hershey Foods Corp. and PA Blue Shield. In 1990, he opened Powerhouse Gym in Harrisburg, which he later sold in 1995.