Upland Software

Emerging Growth Group is the consulting and investment firm of Mark Finkel. Mark has been deeply involved in early stage entrepreneurial enterprises for the past 25 years. Over that time, Mark has worked as an Executive or Board member of many high-growth technology companies in the East Coast, Silicon Valley, and Israel. Mark was also the founder... and Chairman of RightAnswers, an enterprise software company, which was sold to Upland Software in 2017. Mark has had significant international operational experience, having set up distribution channels and operations in both Europe and Asia. Additionally, many of the companies he has been involved with have had successful exits. He has taken four companies public as Chief Financial Officer and many other companies have had M&A exits. Most recently, Mark served at the board level for JUMP Bikes, which was bought by Uber in May 2018. Mark has been involved in numerous social entrepreneurship ventures as well. As chairman of the Special Kids Fund, he has pioneered the concept of a charity gift card. He has also been involved in economic development work in conflict zones such as Afghanistan. Mark was recently appointed as an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University. Previously, he was an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Marymount Manhattan College. Mark holds a BA (Oberlin College), MBA (NYU) and a JD (University of California, Davis Managing Editor of the Law Review). Mark truly enjoys the teamwork, optimism, risk, planning, coordination, and unexpected obstacles and opportunities that go along with working with emerging growth organizations. He understands the drivers and sequencing of activities that add long-term value to those enterprises.Read More