Mark Preston

About Mark Preston

Motivated, results-oriented Engineering and executive leadership professional with 30 years of experience developing innovative, successful products and services • Energetic business leader who takes initiative and enjoys complex challenges, while successfully executing goals • Strong leadership skills demonstrated through proven history of encouraging, energizing, and empowering employees, and building and developing high-performance teams • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills demonstrated through strong rapport building with clients, coworkers, and executive management, alongside consistently delivering best in class customer service • Highly skilled and thoroughly knowledgeable in leadership, team building, product/service innovation, product/service cost reduction, renewable energy (wind, solar PV/CPV/CSP, energy storage, microgrids), electromechanical systems (motors, generators, power electronics, actuators, controls), Six Sigma quality, and global operations • Experienced with large, small, and startup companies, leading teams up to 300 people and managing budgets up to $50M • Responsible for more than $1 billion in annual high-margin incremental revenue throughout career

Experience

1. Senior Vice President of Product Development

   Antora Energy

   Dec 2022 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Education

• University of Sussex

  DPhil, EE

  1983 — 1987

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  BS, Mechanical Engineering

  1979 — 1983