Your body is ready.
Your mind decides
what happens next.

He knows what it’s like to compete at the highest level — and what happens when the mental side isn’t addressed.

As a Division I basketball player under Hall of Fame Coach Chuck Daly, Mark learned early that talent gets you on the floor, but what happens in your head determines what you do once you’re there. That lesson didn’t leave him when his playing days ended. It followed him through a career on Wall Street, across international markets in Tokyo and London, and back to the basketball court as a coach, and ultimately into the work he does today: helping athletes perform at their highest level when the stakes are highest.

After his playing career, Mark brought the same competitive mindset to the world of finance, where he worked as both a trader and executive in high-stakes environments that demand exactly the qualities elite athletes train for — composure under pressure, rapid decision-making, the ability to reset after a loss and execute on the next play. His international experience in two of the world’s most demanding financial markets gave him a rare vantage point on what separates performers who sustain excellence from those who have the tools but can’t consistently access them when it counts.

The pull back to basketball never left. Mark has built a coaching career that speaks for itself at every level he’s touched. He was part of the Canadian National Team coaching staff that won the 40th Annual Jones Cup in Taiwan — one of the most prestigious international basketball tournaments in the world. At Schreiner University, he was on staff for one of the most improbable runs in recent small-college history, when the Mountaineers — seeded fifth in their conference tournament — became the only #5 seed ever to win the SCAC Conference Championship and earn a trip to the NCAA Tournament. He currently serves on the coaching staff at Trinity University, where the Tigers finished tied for first place in their inaugural season in the Southern Athletic Association and earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

That coaching record is not incidental to what Your Portal Edge does. It is the foundation of it. Mark doesn’t work with athletes from the outside looking in — he works with them as someone who has competed at a high level, coached at a high level, and spent decades studying what the mental side of performance actually looks like when real things are on the line.

Your Portal Edge was built from a specific observation: the Transfer Portal has created one of the most psychologically demanding transitions in college athletics, and most programs don’t have dedicated resources to help athletes navigate it. The identity disruption of leaving a program. The pressure of performing in a new environment with something to prove. The challenge of building trust, finding a role, and competing at your ceiling — all at the same time, often with very little runway. Mark has lived versions of all of it, as a player, as a coach, and as a professional who has started over in unfamiliar environments and learned to perform through the transition.

He is currently completing a Master’s Degree in Sports Psychology, adding formal academic depth to a foundation built on decades of real-world competitive experience.