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Mark Hastings is the Managing Partner of Garvin Hill Capital Partners LLC (formerly the private equity arm of CIBC World Markets). Prior to joining CIBC Capital Partners, Mark was a General Partner at BCI Partners, a private equity firm, with USD$800 million under management. Prior to that Mark spent several years at Edison Ventures. Present and prior investments include: Adaytum Software (acquired by Cognos), CashEdge, Corillian (Nasdaq: CORI), Data Labs (acquired by Lucent), Fuelquest, RenewData, Seisint (acquired by LexisNexis, member of Reed Elsevier Group plc), Telelogic (TLOG), Tylink (acquired by Sync Research), Viewlocity (acquired by Synquest), Verid, Visual Networks (Nasdaq: VNWK) and Yantra (acquired by Sterling Commerce).

Mark is a graduate of the Bachelor of Arts in Economics program at Colorado College and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.