Mark Adams is co-founder and CEO of SOZO Global, Inc., which was founded in 2009 with co-founders John Constantine and Larry Cantrell. Prior to SOZO, Mark founded Advocate, MD Financial Group, Inc., a leading Texas-based medical liability insurance holding company, in July 2003. Since July 2003, Mark has served as its Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer. He is also a founding partner in several other companies including the Endowment Development Group, a Houston-based life insurance company specializing in placing large multimillion dollar life insurance policies throughout the U.S. market. Mark founded Murphy Adams Restaurant Group in 2007, which owns and operates Mama Fu’s Asian House restaurants throughout the southeast United States, and currently serves as Chairman and Co-Founder. <br />After his career with global public companies such as Xerox and Johnson & Johnson (1985-1988), beginning in 1988, Mark then spent the next 12 years at Bostik Adhesives where he served in senior management, sales and strategic business management roles for their worldwide markets in North America, Latin America, Asia, and Europe. In 1997, Mark then served as Global Sales Director for Bostik and General Manager of Bostiks J.V. Company Nitta-Findley based in Osaka, Japan and later purchased a minority interest in Ward Adhesives, Inc. and served as General Manager, and Vice President of Sales and Marketing. <br />In 2008, Mark founded Small Business United, LLC, a non-profit organization that supports small businesses. That same year, he co-founded ETMG (Employers Trust Management Group). Additionally, he was the 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award recipient. He has been part of outstanding success by managing $200 million global manufacturing & distribution businesses for Fortune 100 Companies. Mark is an experienced entrepreneur with five successful prior business start-ups, all of which remain in business today!