Mark C. Thompson

Dr. Mark Thompson is recognized by Fortune and Harvard Business Review as the “World’s Top CEO Coach.” He is a 5-time Chairman who has led over 100 board-level engagements with some of the world’s most renowned CEOs and C-suites at Nasdaq-listed companies (ie, Amazon, Alphabet, Schwab, Meta, Apple); NYSE-listed (ie, Disney, HP, Pinterest, Pfizer) Euronext Paris-listed (Danone), PE/VC portfolio firms (BlackRock, Accel, Kleiner, SilverLake) and the KSA (Saudi) and the Abu Dhabi (UAE) Executive Offices. He is former CEO of Schwab.com, the world’s first and largest online retail stock trading platform. He is former chief executive of The CEO Academy, a McKinsey, Wharton, SHRM enterprise. Dr. Thompson is a New York Times bestselling author, who has written, produced and edited over 300 CEO podcasts, articles and books. He is a founding partner of the CEO Ready & CSuite STAR Readiness executive ed initiative at Vanderbilt; Stanford University’s Realtime Venture Lab Initiative; the Chief Executive Alliance; the CEO Leadership Plan Review (LPR); the Marshall Goldsmith 100Coaches Agency; and Virgin’s Branson Entrepreneurship Centers. Raised in Silicon Valley, he lives in Manhattan and Florida, and is a Golden Visa resident of the United Arab Emirates.