Mark
Holman

Mark Holman has had a broad career ranging from California policy and politics, accounting and finance, retail and education, consulting and movies, historic preservation and pharmaceutical development.

He has grown, managed, and led organizations with international influence and over a hundred million dollars in annual revenue.

Among the highlights he was the COO and Board member of a multi-store member corporation of the Fortune 500 co-op ACE Hardware and the CEO and award-winning Executive Producer of a motion picture production company. Until it was favorably acquired, he sat on the board of advisors of Lamplighter Financial which served private equity funds with up to a quarter billion dollars of assets under management. Along the way he also chaired the Board of Directors of one of the first tech spinouts from UC Merced: SunTherm Energy, which was later acquired by a Silicon Valley competitor.

He also served as Chair of the Board and Interim CEO for the official United States National Memorial to Patrick Henry, which operates privately as an affiliated area of the National Park Service; as Patrick Henry’s sixth-great grandson, he is the only descendant to ever lead the organization. He is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of Visions In Education, Inc. one of the largest single-location public charter schools in the United States. He also sits on the Board of Advisors for Noble Story Co., a Hollywood production company with multiple major motion pictures in development. After recently retiring after 13 years as CEO, he continues to chair the Board of Directors for Expanesthetics—the leading global innovator of new general anesthetic drugs, working on a market-driven solution to bring surgical and anesthesia care to at least one billion of the five billion people around the world who lack it.

Today Mark lives in California’s Central Valley.