Mark Burk

Current

• Managing Director, IntraWorlds Ltd. at IntraWorlds

Past

• Associate Industry Analyst and Consultant at M:Metrics - The Mobile Media Authority
• Industry Analyst - Mobile Technology Strategy at Informa Telecoms & Media

Education

• London School of Economics and Political Science

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Connections

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Industry

Telecommunications

Mark Burk’s Summary

I help Universities, Schools and Companies build long-term relationships with their Alumni, Students and Customers by creating their own exclusive online communities.

Before starting at IntraWorlds, I helped global companies such as Nokia, Google, SonyEricsson, Samsung, LG develop their strategy and understand new trends in the mobile communications industry such as mobile software, handsets, mobile internet, mobile TV and music.

Mark Burk’s Specialties:

Building long-term relationships with our clients,
Social networks and online communities.

Mark Burk’s Experience

• Managing Director, IntraWorlds Ltd.

  IntraWorlds

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  IntraWorlds helps universities, school and corporate clients improve their relationship with their alumni, students and customers by creating exclusive online communities.
  
  IntraWorlds started as the online alumni network of WHU university in Germany (providers of the WHU-Kellog MBA programme) in 2001 and today we have over 20 employees and over 50 clients in Europe and the USA.

• Associate Industry Analyst and Consultant

  M:Metrics - The Mobile Media Authority

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  June 2007 — March 2008 (10 months)

  Worked for mobile consumption research startup, reporting to the SVP of Business Development and VP of Consulting - focussed on analysing mobile content consumption, mobile handsets and software trends across Europe and the US.
  
  Developed and launched third product of the company - MobilAdvisor - a syndicated analysis product providing in-depth market and consumption analysis to clients.

• Industry Analyst - Mobile Technology Strategy

  Informa Telecoms & Media

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INF; Telecommunications industry)

  May 2004 — May 2007 (3 years 1 month)

  Industry Analyst with the former ARC Group - focus on Mobile TV, handsets and software.
  
  I was project leader for my last projects at Informa including the 'Mobile TV – Broadcast Network Roll-outs, Business Models and Handsets ' and ‘Multimedia Devices: Video & TV’ strategy reports and co-authored the ‘Future Mobile Handsets’, ‘Mobile Application Platforms and OSs’, ‘Ultra Low Cost Handsets’ and other industry-leading reports. My focus was on evaluating strategic barriers & drivers for the different technologies and companies, business models, technology analysis, worldwide, regional and country forecasts for the 2006-2012 timeframe.
  
  Presented regularly at international conferences and was quoted in The Economist and the IHT.
  
  I joined Informa as a Researcher and Producer for mobile industry conferences. The role involved project management, research and business development for executive conferences on wide variety of mobile business topics.

Mark Burk’s Education

• London School of Economics and Political Science

  BSc Honours Degree , Philosophy & Economics , 2000 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  European Socienty, German Society,