Mark Lonergan

Mark Lon­er­gan is the Founder and Man­ag­ing Part­ner of Lon­er­gan Part­ners. He leads the firms Board Prac­tice, and spe­cial­izes in Board and CEO place­ments in tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies. His recent Board, CEO and senior exec­u­tive assign­ments include such clients as: MIPS, Groq, Super Micro, A10 Net­works, Infi­neon, Mod­el N and many oth­er tech­nol­o­gy companies.

Dell 2018
Brocade
Xilinx
Infoblox
Fortinet
Marketo
Model N
Infinera
Teradata

I built Lonergan Partners to serve CEOs and their Boards with the same intense focus, urgency, and passion that built Silicon Valley

Since 1992, Mark has con­duct­ed over 500 tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny CEO, Board, and senior exec­u­tive assign­ments. He is cur­rent­ly Chair­man of the Board (and out­go­ing CEO) of the Sil­i­con Val­ley Direc­tors’ Exchange (for­mer­ly the SVNACD), work­ing with the Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Rock Cen­ter for Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance to edu­cate cor­po­rate boards in the Sil­i­con Valley.

Mark's Recent Placements

Professional History

Pri­or to found­ing Lon­er­gan Part­ners, Mark was the Man­ag­ing Part­ner for the Sil­i­con Val­ley offices of Hei­drick & Strug­gles, Inc. [NAS­DAQ: HSII]. Mark co-found­ed and lat­er man­aged Heidrick’s glob­al Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and Inter­net Prac­tice, com­posed of seventy‐​five exec­u­tive search teams glob­al­ly. Pri­or to his work with Hei­drick & Strug­gles, Mark was Vice Pres­i­dent, Sales & Mar­ket­ing, at ADC Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, a $2 Bil­lion pub­lic telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions equip­ment sup­pli­er, now part of Tyco Inter­na­tion­al. Ear­li­er, Mark spent ten years with Tym­net (now a sub­sidiary of British Tele­com) in posi­tions of increas­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty includ­ing Dis­trict Sales Man­ag­er, East­ern Region Sales Man­ag­er, and Direc­tor of Field Operations.

Education

Mark has a Mas­ters Degree in Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion from The Kel­logg Grad­u­ate School of Man­age­ment at North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty. He is also a grad­u­ate of Van­der­bilt Uni­ver­si­ty with a degree in British His­to­ry, with Honors.

Client Testimonial

George Lauro Portrait

I was very impressed with the F-18 Process. It helped all of us on the board understand what we could expect from our top candidates if and when they became the CEO. It was also a great indication of the commitment of our top candidates, based on how they prepared for this event.

George Lauro, Board Director, Sensera
Thomas Fallon Portrait

I was very impressed with Lonergan Partners. Mark brought clear and practical insight into our business and its corresponding challenges. Most impressive was Mark’s honest assessment of what we needed and his candid review of the many candidates he brought into the discussion. I am certain I will take advantage of his services in the future.

Thomas Fallon, CEO, Infinera
Marshall C. Turner, Jr. Portrait

Mark Lonergan helped us shift our strategic thinking about our company which resulted in a different set of candidates for us to consider.

Marshall C. Turner, Jr., Board Director, Xilinx

Personal History

I’ve been on both sides of the table

I’ve been very lucky in my career, join­ing a Sil­i­con Val­ley tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny right out of col­lege and help­ing grow that com­pa­ny (Tym­net, a pio­neer in data com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­work­ing) into a glob­al operation.

Through my twin careers as both an oper­at­ing exec­u­tive and a search pro­fes­sion­al, I’ve been for­tu­nate to work with some of the great lead­ers in the his­to­ry of Tech­nol­o­gy: John Mor­gridge (CEO & Chair­man, Cis­co), Gil Ame­lio (CEO, Nation­al Semi­con­duc­tor) Fed­eri­co Fag­gin (Intel), David Lam (Founder, Lam Research), Mike Hack­worth (CEO, Cir­rus Log­ic), Don Valen­tine (Founder, Sequoia Cap­i­tal) and many, many others.

The right stuff

While the styles of these lead­ers dif­fer great­ly, they seem to share a com­mon set of prin­ci­ples that dri­ve com­pa­nies to become great — they believe in their peo­ple, they expect the best from every­one in their orga­ni­za­tions, they’re pas­sion­ate about inno­va­tion, and they strive to become the best in the world at every­thing they do.

This is the great secret of the Sil­i­con Val­ley — if you shoot high enough and demand the best, you can become a world leader in the tech­nol­o­gy market.

Mark Lonergan

Founder & Managing Partner, Lonergan Partners

Specialties: Board & CEO placements

650-413-6006

[email protected]

Mark Lonergan Portrait