Mark Tuttle

Company description: Azarias International applies Atlas Group’s lessons learned in telecommunications to information technology (IT) as a whole. Azarias’ mission is to cost effectively provide world class IT operations tools and practices to mid-sized firms. Firms can achieve a 30% reduction in IT infrastructure costs by adopting these IT operations methods. While IBM and HP offer expensive similar services to Fortune 500 firms, the middle market is underserved for IT best practices support. Azarias International also provides international telecommunications consulting to firms with an emphasis on unified communications design and management.

Bio: Mark received Bachelor of Arts (1980) and Bachelor of Engineering (1982) degrees from Dartmouth College before joining Johnson Controls’ intelligent building initiative (where he designed Boston’s Hynes Convention Center automation). He was hired by Northern Telecom and recognized in 1989 as Nortel’s top global sales executive. In 1993 EMI Music hired Mark as the Director of Global Voice Services to deploy their worldwide voice and video network. In 1995 Mark formed Atlas Group in Wilton, Connecticut where he consulted on the launch of six international telecom firms and provided telecom expert assistance to Deloitte, Anderson, Garner and McKinsey. He also led Pfizer’s European headquarters design and deployment, at the time the largest European private telephone system.