Mark Dawes

Activist, Business leader, Business mentor, Change agent, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Marketer, Social entrepreneur

Owns Innoruption.com (Switched on Startup) and Dawes direct, LLC, an innovation strategy consultancy. EIR for the Hillman Accelerator and Procter and Gamble and successful serial entrepreneur: Cornerstone Brands (Frontgate) and Cincinnati Microwave (Escort Radar Detectors) “Switched on Startup” is a startup founder, development program designed to enable rapid founder “know how” development and startup mapping skills. These are essential to enabling founders to shift the odds of startup success. The more founders win, the more we all win. EIR for the Hillman Accelerator - an accelerator promoting minority and female lead start-ups. Milestone-for-milestone and pound-for-pound under-represented founders are better than their privileged counterparts. This is in large part due to overcoming hurdles brought on by their disadvantage that privileged founders simply don’t experience. EIR for Procter and Gamble for 10 years working with over 100 new business creation teams and their leaders on the journey towards developing new billion dollar consumer package goods businesses. (Follow on projects with several other fortune 100 companies.) Serial entrepreneur and senior c suite founding leader for Cornerstone Brands (Frontgate, Ballard Designs, TravelSmith, Garnet Hill, Territory Ahead catalogs) and Cincinnati Microwave (Escort, Passport, Solo radar detectors, satellite TV, etc)

Rule breaking business models and creating new markets and categories.

At what point is the question no longer "can we do this?" but "should we?"

Business modeling and development, Innovation Strategy, Market & Brand Strategy, New business creation, Portfolio Management

I can back a 54' yacht into a 16' slip in nothing flat - left handed.