Mark Richards

Mark leads the KalioTek™™ team, manages business alliances, and works with CEOs and CFOs of venture-backed companies to formulate their IT strategies and create solid foundations for growth. Mark has spent 30 years developing and deploying IT strategies and solutions for Silicon Valley companies. Over the last 18 years, he served as CIO and IT Director for several rapidly growing companies. He was a member of the founding management team at Corio (acquired by IBM). As VP of IT Consulting for Corio, he created and managed the CIO Services practice, the Program Office, and led pioneering projects to deliver enterprise applications through the ASP/SaaS model. Prior to that, he was Director of IT Outsourcing for DSCI.