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MARK L. POWELL
Mark L. Powell, chief executive officer and founder of the Sidus Group, has more than 20 years of experience leading companies that have demonstrated rapid and profitable growth.

Sidus Group, LLC was founded in 1999 to deliver data and Web services to support its clients' internet strategies. Under Powell’s leadership, Sidus has consistently expanded with average increases in excess of 40 percent, annualized. Before starting Sidus, Powell founded and was the managing partner of Chesapeake Marketing Group. From 1992 until 1999, CMG sustained an annualized growth rate of 74 percent. The company won national awards from companies such as Sherwin-Williams, Newell Rubbermaid, Teknor Apex and Flotec/Sta-Rite.

Powell’s personal honors include being inducted into the Legends Circle of the Chesapeake Regional Technology Council in 2009 and in 2008 being named the Annapolis and Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce Anne Arundel County Business Leader of the Year and chosen by the Maryland Gazette as “One of the Top 25 CEO’s You Need to Know” in Maryland.

Powell led his company in the creation of the Sidus Shares program, the philanthropic arm of Sidus which was created to support various civic and nonprofit organizations that are seeking to improve the quality of life for our community. Since 2005, Sidus Shares has provided more than $200,000 in monetary or services support to civic-based organizations.

Professionally, he is president emeritus of the Chesapeake Regional Technology Council, a member of the Executive Committee of the Annapolis and Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce, vice chair for the 21st Century Foundation and has served on numerous task forces and been involved with multiple other civic organizations.

Powell has a M.B.A. from the University of Maryland, where he was selected to be the William F. Holin Scholar. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a B.S. in Management Engineering and is president of the USNA Class of 1983. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and is a service-disabled veteran.

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