Mark Newhall

Managing Director and Co-Founder

Mark Newhall is an expert on the mobile & digital media industries and executive recruitment with 21+ years of experience in the recruiting field. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of IdealWave Solutions, a global executive search firm that focuses exclusively on the mobile and digital media industries. Mark provides high-level executive recruitment, business development, and strategic consulting services. Mark co-founded the firm in 2001 and it has since grown to become one of the area’s top executive search firms.

Mark is also the Co-Founder of INmobile.org, a private, invitation-only, global on-line community for senior executives in the wireless industry and related sectors. The community has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Entrepreneur Magazine and Business Week.

Additionally, Mark was a Board Advisor and expert consultant to Peekaboo Mobile, an innovative provider of mobile coupons and deals for local businesses prior to its successful sale to nSphere in early 2011. Mark is currently an Advisor to Payfone, an innovative mobile payments provider, and Byte Ventures, the creator of Prize Per Day, which is a top way to earn prizes from your mobile phone.

Mark is also an Angel Investor in Qwalify (HR technology solutions), Libboo (a next generation publishing platform), and 1Mind (currently in stealth mode). He is also a mentor at the Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) Accelerator in New York and a Curator of the recent TEDxBeaconStreet event in the Boston area.

Prior to founding his own firm, Mark was a consultant to Charles River Ventures, a tier-one venture capital firm, and a Senior Recruiter for ITCS, a technology focused staff augmentation company.

Mark holds a degree in Business Administration from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.