Mark Proffitt

Mark Proffitt has helped deliver over $1 billion of innovations working with start-ups and Fortune 500 companies such as: Apple, Microsoft, Nintendo, Hewlett Packard, Visa, SKF, and JP Morgan Chase.

Today he's a world traveling digital nomad, social-entrepreneur, Maker, musician, and proponent of self-education.

Notable accomplishments include:

- Developed the 1st Statistical Process.

- Control (SPC) system used in a US Automotive factory.

- Deployed 1st web application at Hewlett Packard.

- Contributed to Agile project management methodology.

- Oversaw first global dual TV & Internet video broadcast reaching 1 billion viewers.

- Produced 1 of the first 8 video podcasts, viewed over 1 million times before Youtube was created.

- Taught Predictive Innovation on 5 continents.

- Founded 2 Maker Spaces.

- Began college at age 14.

- Guest lecturer at MIT.

- Recovered from a paralyzing car accident.

- Produced a full moon rave in Santa Cruz.

- Driven elephants

- Appeared in motion pictures with Wayne Brady and TV commercial with Alice Cooper.