Mark Epstein

Mark is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Character.Org (aka, Character Education Partnership (CEP) (www.character.org), a non-profit advocacy and resource group dedicated to improving our society by teaching what it means to be a person of moral and performance character and by providing the resources to corporations, parents, and teachers to achieve this improvement.

Mark actively performs in a semi-professional bluegrass band, The Badly Bent. He has recently had the honor to be a member of Michael Martin Murphey and the Rio Grande Band at several shows.

Mark’s term expired in July 2013 as President/Vice-President of the Board of Directors and co-founder of Mountain Middle School, a start-up charter middle school in Durango which opened in August 2011.

He owned Canyon Music from January 2000 to January 2008, a full-service acoustic instrument store based in Durango.

Mark was co-founder and principal consultant with Utility Graphics Consultants, which became UGC Consulting, which became Convergent Group, which was ultimately sold to Schlumberger.

 During the 15 years with Convergent Group, he was in a variety of roles from Principal Consultant, President, to President and CEO of Graphic Data Systems, a Convergent Group member company.

 Along with a long-time friend and college associate, they grew Convergent Group from a two-person start-up to a firm with over 450 employees and $130 million in annual revenue.

Mark’s expertise is in startup and management consulting, including organizational adaptation to technology, cost-benefit analyses, strategic planning, and multi-organizational coordination and cooperation.

Mark also plays a lot of banjo.