Mark R. Ross

Managing Director

Mark R. Ross is a Managing Director of Diamond Capital Advisors. Previously, he was a Managing Director of Mosaic Capital, which he had joined in 2006. Mark has over 30 years of hands-on experience, both as an entrepreneur and as a banker, leading companies to unprecedented growth. He is the current Vice-Chairman of Autobytel, Inc. [NASDAQ: “ABTL”], where he also serves as a member of the Board’s Audit Committee. He was also the founding investor and senior board member of AutoWeb [NASDAQ: “AWEB”], and spearheaded its merger in 2001 with Autobytel.

In 2001, Mark founded Cogito Capital, a corporate advisory firm working with rapidly growing, emerging technology companies on their scalability, infrastructure and media/ convergence strategies. Mr. Ross was also a Managing Director of Chatsworth Securities from 1997 until 2006, when he joined Mosaic. While at Chatsworth, Mark was the senior banker and advisor on over 25 transactions, with a combined value of over $500 million. Mr. Ross also served on the boards of advisors of many of these early stage growth companies, such as iCastle.com, Salon, Inc. [NASDAQ: “SALNC”], MoreDirect, Inc. and Mediaplex, Inc. [NASDAQ: “MPLX”].

As Founder (1983) and Chairman of On Word Information, a pioneering database/imaging company, he worked with such Fortune 500 companies as Motorola, Hewlett Packard, PACCAR and The World Bank. In 1995 Mr. Ross sold On Word to Motorola.

Mr. Ross received a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA and pursued his graduate studies in education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA and at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. Mr. Ross holds a Permanent Teacher’s Credential from the State of New York as well as his NASD Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.

Mark is married to Roni Weisberg-Ross, a Los Angeles-based psychologist. They have one child, a daughter, Caroline. Mark’s passions, other than his family, are photography (feel free to click the link to his photo site), skiing (non-expert, but still really great fun) and cooking for friends and family. Mark is licensed by FINRA as a General Securities Representative.