Mark Mangelsdorf

Experience

Mark specializes in CEO, CFO, and go-to-market leadership appointments, with additional experience across product, engineering, data/AI, and commercial leadership. His work focuses on leaders who can help companies scale revenue, enter new markets, professionalize teams, and navigate periods of growth and change.

Over his career, Mark has partnered with more than 50 venture-backed and growth-stage companies across advanced technology and adjacent markets, including consumer and digital businesses, marketplaces, fintech, mobility, sports and media, climate technology, industrial innovation, and other technology-enabled sectors.

Before joining DHR, Mark spent 17 years with a venture-focused executive search firm, where he advanced from Associate to Partner and supported founders, investors, and leadership teams across the technology ecosystem. He later co-founded a regenerative agriculture company focused on soil health, giving him first hand perspective on the commercial and operational decisions founders face as they build and scale businesses.

Mark is a UCLA alumnus and former student-athlete.