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Most recently, Mark has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer for ARGUS Software, the standard provider of investment management solutions to the commercial real estate industry. In 2005, Mark led a leveraged buyout and subsequent turnaround of ARGUS that included introducing the firm’s products to the Japanese and Chinese markets, leading the acquisition of a major European competitor to establish a strong EU presence and has added new tools and partnerships to strengthen the firm’s arsenal.
His accolades within the commercial real estate industry have been many including serving for the past two years as an executive board member for the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate, the industry’s most influential standards body. He was also named this year as one of Realcomm’s “Top 35 People to Watch.” Realcomm is the top industry trade organization addressing the technology needs of commercial real estate.
Prior to joining ARGUS, Mark served as the CEO of Izoic, Inc., a Denver-based software firm that created solutions for subsurface infrastructure, geo-coding and damage prevention. Mark’s first CEO title came when he founded ECOutlook in Houston in 1999. ECOutlook created a comprehensive B2B integration platform called Collaboration Center© that facilitated the automation of specific business processes.
Mark not only led the mergers and acquisitions business for Physicians Resource Group, a physician practice management company, but also founded the company and helped to take to it public in 1994. In his early career, Mark honed his leadership skills in significant positions with both Proctor & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson.
Mark holds a BS from Mount Union College and an MBA from the University of Indianapolis. Mark currently resides in Houston, Texas with his wife Lien and their two sons.
Specialties:• Creating shareholder value and ROI
• Increasing the value of key personnel as an organizational asset
• New business development, start-up and turnaround
• Globalization, overseas business operations and management – EMEA, APAC, Americas
• Multi-industry execution
• Executive accountability for corporate performance and profit
Interests:
• Reading: Historical fiction, The Art of War;
• Cooking: Italian, Asian;
• Technology: Usability, business process automation;
• Orphanages: Developing a program for the advancement of education and opportunity for orphans;
• Teaching: Kindergarten teacher at Sugar Creek First Baptist;
The "ARGUS Commercial Real Estate Network" was created to act as a convergence point and forum for the ARGUS ecosystem whose members benefit from each other's participation via symbiotic relationships (positive sum relationships).
Presently, the ARGUS Software ecosystem of users and relationships reach 90,000+ professionals in over 60 countries. It's solutions extend to virtually all functions of the real estate investment and management life cycle.
Arguably, the commercial real estate industry, as a sum of its parts, is one of the largest and most significant components in the fabric of the world economy. Sadly, because of it's fragmentation, it is most often characterized as a niche. The industry lacks the ability to mobilize efficiently and to ratably benefit from it's true size and impact in the global economy.
We believe that this ecosystem may uniquely represent an opportunity to change the current direction and disposition of the commercial real estate industry and the economy.
Collectively we can identify, create and increase opportunities for commercial real estate practitioners. We can freely exchange ideas, define problems and identify best practices-solutions. We can put people back to work.
How do we measure our success in this effort?
1) # of individuals we get back to work
2) # of transactions that we help people complete (Buy, Sell, Build, Fund)
3) The increased speed and efficiency of the workout process. (The longer it takes, the longer the impact)
4) The number of people that benefit from each other's participation
We gain strength as an ecosystem whose members benefit from each other's participation via symbiotic relationships (positive sum relationships). If you are able to do nothing more than invite people to this group, do it well and do it often. Strength will come with size.
Mark Kingston
President & CEO
ARGUS Software Inc
Presently, the ARGUS Software ecosystem of users and relationships reach 90,000+ professionals in over 60 countries. It's solutions extend to virtually all functions of the real estate investment and management life cycle.
Arguably, the commercial real estate industry, as a sum of its parts, is one of the largest and most significant components in the fabric of the world economy. Sadly, because of it's fragmentation, it is most often characterized as a niche. The industry lacks the ability to mobilize efficiently and to ratably benefit from it's true size and impact in the global economy.
We believe that this ecosystem may uniquely represent an opportunity to change the current direction and disposition of the commercial real estate industry and the economy.
Collectively we can identify, create and increase opportunities for commercial real estate practitioners. We can freely exchange ideas, define problems and identify best practices-solutions. We can put people back to work.
How do we measure our success in this effort?
1) # of individuals we get back to work
2) # of transactions that we help people complete (Buy, Sell, Build, Fund)
3) The increased speed and efficiency of the workout process. (The longer it takes, the longer the impact)
4) The number of people that benefit from each other's participation
We gain strength as an ecosystem whose members benefit from each other's participation via symbiotic relationships (positive sum relationships). If you are able to do nothing more than invite people to this group, do it well and do it often. Strength will come with size.
Mark Kingston
President & CEO
ARGUS Software Inc
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Thought One:
Money is made in the arbitrage. Why would the capital markets want to screw that up?
It is not difficult to observe this reality. The idea of transparency is easily achieved. Yet everybody keeps their secret sauce. That hidden jewel o…
Mark:
This is an excellent launching point for the discussion "how is value 'calculated'?" I like your thoughts on the "natural cycle" - and I agree with your premise that artificial controls can disrupt the cycle. However - the premise that "arbitr…
Great article. The market may not want a perfect calculation of value, I believe ... for certain parts of the globe; but not for the markets in some of the countries in Asia. The past is the past, the majority will learn from history but behave the…
Do we dare ask, how did we get here? This "financial tsumani," which causes us to deliberate on how to take care of those who are unable, at this time, to take care of themselves.
I would be willing to contribute to a system that supports the good…
The good news is this: the generation of people under 35 who are extraordinarily smart, talented and motivated. If one is looking for inspiration, stand outside the parking lot of most leading universities in and near cities at 6pm during the school…
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Hope everybody finds this stimulating. Good night.
Deleverage, save, invest, spend within their means, make education choices that create greater opportunities, work full-time and go to school, start businesses, watch less TV, workout to stay healthy and reduce healthcare costs, keep your car an extra year, do homework with the kids, make an extra payment every year to pay your house off early, eat more fish and vegetables, etc. Sell your excess on EBay or give it to charity.
People need to st… Continue
Deleverage, save, invest, spend within their means, make education choices that create greater opportunities, work full-time and go to school, start businesses, watch less TV, workout to stay healthy and reduce healthcare costs, keep your car an extra year, do homework with the kids, make an extra payment every year to pay your house off early, eat more fish and vegetables, etc. Sell your excess on EBay or give it to charity.
People need to st… Continue
Posted on August 5, 2009 at 6:23pm — 3 Comments
Have you considered that the market may not want a perfect calculation of value?
Thought One:
Money is made in the arbitrage. Why would the capital markets want to screw that up?
It is not difficult to observe this reality. The idea of transparency is easily achieved. Yet everybody keeps their secret sauce. That hidden jewel of information that either gains them advantage in pricing or causes somebody else’s disadvantage.
Thought Two:
Is it not this same arbitrage and its continued reinvestment in the markets that have led to innovation-growth and likewise the collapse a… Continue
Money is made in the arbitrage. Why would the capital markets want to screw that up?
It is not difficult to observe this reality. The idea of transparency is easily achieved. Yet everybody keeps their secret sauce. That hidden jewel of information that either gains them advantage in pricing or causes somebody else’s disadvantage.
Thought Two:
Is it not this same arbitrage and its continued reinvestment in the markets that have led to innovation-growth and likewise the collapse a… Continue
Posted on August 5, 2009 at 6:21pm — 3 Comments
The largest accumulation of distressed assets our industry has ever seen.
The ARGUS Distressed Asset Plan & Technology (ADAPT) powered by RIISnet: RIISnet’s 21st century efficiencies combined with Argus’ connectivity to the largest CRE database in the world and the addition of new financial solutions like ARGUS FC and ARGUS On-line provides the most powerful Distressed Asset Solution, just in time to accommodate the largest accumulation of distressed assets our industry has ever seen.
Problem:
Demand for distressed asset purchase is climbing daily. Buyer e… Continue
Problem:
Demand for distressed asset purchase is climbing daily. Buyer e… Continue
Posted on July 15, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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- At 8:45pm on July 23, 2009,
Larry Gruttemeyer said… - Mark
Thanks for your efforts and support in initiating change in the paradigm for CRE. As evident from the meeting today, you have assembled many capable professionals ready to Do rather than WATCH. The energy in getting ADAPT off the ground and running is here and I am privileged to be part of it. Can't wait to contribute, utilize the platform and grow new relationships.
Larry
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