President, Global Field Operations
Mark Biestman is the President, Global Field Operations for Rearden Commerce. He has 30 years of sales, marketing, and professional management experience during which he helped guide Netscape Communications and Commerce One through successful initial public offerings.
Mark began his professional career in sales at IBM and subsequently worked for Tandem Computers and Metaphor. He joined Netscape as Vice President of Sales for the Western US, and he also helped launch a subsidiary that developed and marketed Netscape's eCommerce portfolio.
He was then hired by Commerce One, Inc. as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Global Field Operations. He has also served as the CEO of both Seven Networks and Real Clear Technologies, a software and services company in the Service Delivery Management sector. Prior to joining Rearden Commerce, Mark served as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations for Enquisite, a software as a service company (SaaS) in San Francisco focused on the search engine optimization (SEO) and analytics category.
Mark is also the co-founder of LinksMark Multimedia and The Sports Retail Networks, a point of sale digital advertising company, whose flagship product, The Golf Network, is currently installed in 85 retail locations throughout North America.
Mark is a resident of Diablo, and Olympic Valley, California, and is an avid sportsman. He serves as the elected member of the athletic department to the UC Foundation, and just completed a five-year board of director's assignment to the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance in Washington D.C. He currently serves on the board of Bear Data Solutions, a systems integration and IT delivery company. He is married to Karen Biestman and has two grown sons, Ross and Jeffrey.