Mark Benak VP, Business Development
Mark Benak is a technologist and entrepreneur with over 17 years experience in
engineering, business development, and company building. In the past several
years Mark has completed consulting projects through his own company Southwest
Solutions House LLC in the areas of economic development in New Mexico, business
management, and new and ongoing market validation for medical technologies.
Prior to Southwest, from 1993 to 2003, Mr. Benak was part of a team that founded
and operated InLight Solutions, Inc., an Albuquerque based medical technology startup
whose mission is to provide optical solutions for life sciences applications.
As Director of New Business, he negotiated with strategic partners for commercialization
of an in vitro cervical cancer screening device and an in vivo alcohol measurement
device. Before InLight, Mr. Benak was a staff scientist with the institute for
fluid mechanics at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. Prior to LSTM, Mr.
Benak was a research engineer with Daimler-Benz AG in Germany. Mr. Benak received
his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in mechanical engineering.
