Mark R. Painter, CFA is the Founder and President of EverGuide Financial group. Mark has spent his career as an investment advisor working with business owners and entrepreneurs. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, Mark spent his early years building the investment management division of a Philadelphia based financial management firm. Here he helped the firm grow assets over 7 times during his tenure and moved into many verticals including creating an emerging markets hedge fund where he was the lead trader and a publicly traded mutual fund focused on real estate in which he was the lead portfolio manager. At EverGuide, Mark has broadened offerings to clients by helping companies throughout the lifecycle of their businesses from startup to eventual exit. These types of services range from helping clients start a company, raising capital to grow the business, extracting liquidity from an operating business, and exiting a business completely. Mark has over 16 years of experience investing in public markets, private companies, private startups, and real estate. Mark’s passion is to provide advice to clients through financial planning, business planning, and portfolio management services that drive value to both their businesses and financial assets.