Mark Shaw

Brainstormer, Business leader, Change Agent, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Inventor, Marketer, World traveler

MARK D. SHAW Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida Education: Denison University, BA Economics 1980 Summary of Qualifications: Thirty years of experience in the designing, developing, sales and marketing of environmental products in the fields of spill containment, spill response, stormwater management, construction compliance, facility protection,bio-remediation (microbes), oil spill, radioactive waste management and nanotechnologies. Founded and operated four businesses servicing the environmental, industrial and safety market. Inventor or co-inventor of over sixty patents. Developed over 500 new products. Numerous new product of the year awards, three times named one of the fastest growing companies in NE Florida and won Best Place to Work in NE Florida 2010, finalist in 2014. Founder and Principal in UltraTech International Inc. and Interpak, Inc. Credited with starting the Spill Containment Industry in the early 1980s. Extensive international business experience covering forty countries. Numerous published articles, speeches and papers. TED Speaker, Long Beach 2013 2015 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, Florida 2015 North Florida Ultimate CEO Experience: 1/93 to present ULTRATECH INTERNATIONAL, INC., Jacksonville, Florida Founder and Co-President 1/93 to present INTERPAK, INC., Mentor, Ohio Founder and CEO 4/88 to 12/92 ENPAC CORPORATION, Jacksonville, Florida Founder and COO 1/83 to 3/88 BONDICO, INC., Jacksonville, Florida Founder and President After graduating from college in 1980, Mark viewed a news broadcast on a toxic waste clean-up called Love Canal. The TV footage showed leaking steel drums of toxic waste being lowered into larger steel drums, called Salvage Drums. It was then Mark was inspired to "save the world from toxic waste and build a drum that would never leak". At the age of 23, with only an economics major as his experience and working out of a rented storage locker, he developed his first patent, an plastic overpack container with resistance wiring built into the lid that would automatically heat weld the lid to the container with the push of a button. He dubbed it Macroencapsulation and today, Macroencapsulation is not only an EPA approved treatment for hazardous waste but is also used extensively at DOE National Labs for shipping and treating mixed radioactive waste that is both chemically and radioactively hazardous. Many of his inventions and products have become the market standard worldwide. Mark and his companies have also been credited with being pioneers in the spill containment and storm water management industry and is now implementing the vision of bringing advanced and innovative technologies to industry on a global basis through its 1,500 distributors covering 80 countries. Interestingly, it took industry over 25 years before industry adopted and began to extensively use the Macroencapsulation technology. During that time, Mark never gave up on what he thought was the right product for the industry. He dutifully showed it year after year at trade shows. Finally, after twenty five years of patience and effort, the US Department of Energy (DOE) adopted the product for use and it has become a preferred means for disposing of radioactive and chemically hazardous waste. Along the way, Mark co-founded a number of successful companies and created over 500 new and innovative products. Most of these products are designed to save the environment from toxic and hazardous pollution a passion Mark has maintained throughout the years.

Developing products to make the world safer and cleaner. Brining advanced technologies to market.

Nanotechnology is going to have as big an impact on our lives as PCs and the Internet has.

Advanced Technologies, Business, Business Development & Strategic Marketing, enterpeneur, Environmental - Strategy, futuring, innovation,, International Business, Invention & Innovation, Microbes, Nanotechnology Commercialization, Patents, Pollution Control, Radioactive Waste Technologies

I was asked to give a TED talk two weeks before the 2013 TED in Long Beach and had only two days to rehearse. The ending turned out to be an iconic TED moment. It was a great experience and the TED staff is terrific.

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