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Colonel (Ret.) Mark W. Erwin is the President of The Karakoram Group, an international advisory firm that provides strategic consulting to Fortune 500 companies with a focus on the identification, mitigation and management of risk. Prior to founding the Karakoram Group in 2015, Mr. Erwin served as CEO of A&K Global Health, a Fortress Investments portfolio company providing medical travel services across the globe, which he grew from startup into a multinational operation with 60 employees. Mr. Erwin’s corporate leadership experience includes a role as Non-Executive Director for Heritage Oil, an oil & gas upstream exploration & production company which was listed in the London Stock Exchange until June 2014, when the company was purchased and taken private. Mr. Erwin currently serves on the board of directors of Aspen Medical International which provides healthcare services in challenging environments around the globe.
Prior to his commercial career, Mr. Erwin served in the United States Army for over 25 years completing his career as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army Special Operations Command. After being commissioned into the Infantry from ROTC at Wake Forest University, he held leadership positions throughout his career to include command of an 82nd Airborne Company in Desert Storm. He commanded at every level of one of our nation’s most elite Counter-Terrorism Units from 1995 to 2009. He became a key player in the Global War on Terrorism deploying numerous times to Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries throughout the Middle East and Africa leading our nation’s most sensitive operations.
Mr. Erwin graduated from Wake Forest University in 1984 where he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology. He completed the United States Army War College through a fellowship at the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington D.C in 2007. |