Meet Our Team

 Mr. Franz has over 30 years of experience in a broad scope of areas including Environmental Science/Urban Planning, University Teaching, and Environmental and Business Development Consulting. After teaching in the early 70’s he became the director of the Environmental unit of the NYC Department of City Planning; then in the late 70’s founded and managed McKeown & Franz Inc. (MFI), a premier environmental consulting firm in NYC. The Trump Organization, Forest City Ratner and several NYS agencies were included among hundreds of MFI clients. In the mid 90’s after completing a number of investment deals with a major MFI client/investor Mr. Franz became a business development consultant as CEO of Insight Capital LLC which advised companies and investors on disruptive technology investments and IPO’s. In 2002 he helped found and became CEO of Ecovive LLC, an environmental technology/products company. Currently he is the Senior Partner of Strategic Business Development Partners Inc. (SBDP) in NYC. read more »

Gary Hirsch is an Executive Coach and Group Leader with Vistage International, the world’s leading membership organization for business owners, company presidents, and CEOs. Vistage’s 14,000 members participate in peer groups in 200 cities around the United States and in 16 countries around the world, including, most recently, China.

Gary leads two think tanks of Tucson business leaders who collaborate to become better leaders, make better decisions and achieve better results, ultimately growing their businesses two to three times faster after joining Vistage. In less than two years time, members have accumulated growth and savings in excess of $2 million attributable to their participation in Vistage. read more »

Juan Ramón Zarco is a highly seasoned international business development executive having executed foreign market presence in Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.  He has demonstrated success in building multinational infrastructure for greenfield through mature businesses, utilizing top-tiered, talented teams to achieve timely success in competitively challenging and fast growth environments for sustainable and technology companies such as Sprint, U.S. Cable (acquired by Comcast), and MicroStrategy.

A notable speaker, he has presented at major events throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America and Eurasia on issues on strategy, financing, and sustainable energy markets, and can collaborate across all levels of an organization to ensure compatible focus, communication, and strategic success – from innovation to integration.

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Mike Palmisciano comes to Revenue Spark with over 15 years of experience in high level corporate sales and marketing, having dealt and worked with a wide array of technology products and services. He has held senior level positions with world renowned companies like Oracle, Computer Associates, and Sterling Software, as well as six different technology start-up companies, all within which he was responsible for new business development, sales, marketing and customer service.
 
His background spans several vertical markets, including financial services, government, utilities, manufacturing, telecommunications and new media. Five of the previous start-up companies Mike has worked for have either successfully gone public or been sold, thus demonstrating he possesses not only the vital hands-on business development skills necessary to helping smaller businesses grow, but also those involved with enabling well-established firms to expand their market presence. He has developed and negotiated multiple business deals in excess of one million dollars to Fortune 100 customers such as J.P. Morgan, USB, Pfizer and the City of New York.

Mark Mitchell is a writer and filmmaker. His mother was an entertainment critic for a local TV station in Boston while he was growing up, thus he was exposed to the inner-workings of TV and film at an early age, and caught the “bug” for visual storytelling early on in life.

Mark was a founding member of the groundbreaking children’s theatre group “The Freelance Players” in Boston at the young age of ten. His award-winning feature directorial debut, "Vote and Die", is an independent ‘mocumentary’ political comedy now available on Amazon.com. He has written and directed TV documentaries for PBS and CNN, and also worked in news, current affairs, politics, and has recently become focused on Internet video convergence and integration. He also works as a freelance editor on both Final Cut Pro and Avid. read more »