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Mark Ellis is a highly skilled
entrepreneur and turnaround specialist who has produced profits from
every management vantage point - sales, marketing and financial. Mark
served in key marketing and top management positions at General Mills,
Mattel, Ideal Toys, and the Franklin Mint. At 1to1â Venture Partners, LLC, he is the
Managing Partner of the fund, which provides financing for early-stage
companies. Mark began his career at
General Mills. After a five-year stint in brand management at General Mills,
he moved into the toy industry. Mark served as head of marketing for boy's
toys at Mattel, where he was responsible for more than half of the company's
sales. He then moved into general management as the International President
of Ideal Toys (a division of CBS, Inc.). This was Mark's first major
turnaround. After a corporate
sell-off, Mark became chief executive of the 16 European subsidiaries of the
Franklin Mint. At the Franklin Mint, he combined his new product skills with
sophisticated use of database-driven direct marketing to engineer a
remarkable turnaround. True to his
entrepreneurial spirit, Mark left the corporate world and spent a year
raising money to purchase a premier manufacturing company. He successfully
made that purchase and was able to apply all of the skills he learned in the
corporate world to make this manufacturing company a success. Using his proven
turnaround capabilities and keen financial instincts, Mark was the Managing
Director of the Relationship Factory at Peppers and Rogers Group, the venture
capital arm of the company. The Peppers and Rogers Group is the world's
pre-eminent customer management relationship consulting firm. The
Relationship Factory was the pre-cursor to 1to1 Venture Partners, LP. Mark has an MBA from the
Wharton School of Business and a BS in Business from the University of
Minnesota. Email Ellis@1to1ventures.com. Copyright © 2001 1to1 Ventures 1to1â is a trademark of the Peppers and
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