Mark Palmer
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) @Quility Insurance
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) @Quility Insurance
Asheville, NC, US
Chief Strategy Officer, overseeing corporate development, strategic direction and organizational alignment.
EDUCATION
Columbia Law School
J.D., Law
University of South Florida
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government
ABOUT MARK PALMER
Mr. Palmer is the Chief Strategy Officer for Quility Holdings, overseeing corporate development, strategic direction and organizational alignment. Quility is a national technology and data enabled insurance product development, distribution and marketing organization. Mr. Palmer also is the Founder/Managing Director of Theseus Strategy Group, providing transaction coordination/structuring services, liability/crisis management and event-driven trading analyses in complex \"Special Situations.\" For the 7 prior years, he was an Investment Partner for MatlinPatterson,$10+ billion global private equity franchise, responsible for structuring all transactions, targeted investments and liability/crisis management. For 13 years, he also was a Partner at Bracewell & Giuliani (Chair of the Private Investment Funds Practice/NY Corporate Head), as a Partner at Linklaters (US Corporate Head in New York) and as a Partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan (Corporate/Financial Restructuring). He represented private investment firms, financial institutions and corporations on M&A, governance, takeovers, JVs, investments and reorganizations. He began at Sullivan & Cromwell as a Corporate and M&A Associate. For 3 years, Mark was an entrepreneur/venture capitalist: EVP/co-founder at NextSet Software, Director of Strategic Transactions at Reuters/Reuters Venture Capital, and SVP/General Counsel for TIBCO Finance. Example representations include: WorldCom, Adelphia, SatMex, Ormet, Standard Pacifc, Varig, Oneida, Global Aviation/ATA. Airlines, WestPoint Stevens, Viasystems, Personnel Group of America, Railworks Corp, APW Ltd, Desa Int\'.l, Maxim Crane, NSC/Pueblo, TransTexas Gas and Woods Equipment. Example corporate clients: BP, Merrill Lynch, Cablevision, Goldman Sachs, AB InBev and Giuliani Capital. He no longer practices law. Mark was instrumental, as an investment Principal, in several transactions, including: Standard Pacific, several Media names, Foamex (FXI), Crescent Communities, Flagstar Bank, Nortel, Tousa and Idearc, devising unprecedented structures and redefining legal/market standards. Board representations have included Global Aviation, Advantix, FXI and Crescent Communities and the Idearc and Boston Generating litigation trusts.
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