As Managing Partner, Success Associates, LLC, Mark Caruso is responsible for the overall creation, development and execution of the company's turnkey succession planning point solution for content, process and software. Day to day Mark leads business development efforts and our seminar and consulting services delivery. Mark originally founded Success Associates, Inc. as an HR and IT firm in 1996 - where he became globally recognized as an expert in a number of HR strategic processes, including succession planning, performance management, large scale recruitment project management, compensation and executive development. Due to market demand for a proven successful comprehensive approach for succession planning and with the help of an infusion of venture capital Success Associates, Inc. evolved to Success Associates, LLC in 2008.

In addition to founding Success Associates in 1996, Mark served as Executive Vice President at TMP Worldwide (NASDAQ: MNST). During his tenure, Mark helped create the company's Executive Resourcing Division, expanding its portfolio of products and services and growing revenues to more than $14 million in less than two years.

Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Choice Hotels International (NYSE: CHH) where he had overall responsibility for the HR function and was responsible for the recruitment, training, compensation, benefits, succession planning and organizational design of the company's employees located in more than 5,000 hotels and 43 countries worldwide. Before that, Caruso served in a variety of senior management positions, including Vice President of Worldwide HR Development for Holiday Inn Worldwide, acting VP of Information Technology at Sprint PCS and various HR and IT management positions during his eight years at Federal Express.

Mark Caruso has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Sociology and a Master of Science degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin.