manager Chief Executive Officer
Mark B. Hoffman was born in a small town called Windom, Minnesota. His father ran a dry-cleaning establishment along with a tailor business. His mother was a school teacher. Has two brothers. As a child Hoffman ran errands for his father but was not fully absorbed in business.
Was interested in science and mechanics. Made radios and some electronicshimself. Went in for various sports - football, wrestling, baseball. Hoffman was good academically and was appreciated by the National Honor Society.
At Gustavus Adolphus Hoffman received an academic scholarship but had to work to pay for the living. A year later Hoffman was appointed to the US Military Academy. There he studied free. Hoffman was not a real success academically but was involved into wrestling. That resulted in taking part in wrestling national competitions in his senior year. Studied engineering and computer programming languages. After serving in the US Army for 6 years and getting married he got a Master of Business Administration degree in the University of Arizona where he went on studying computers.
Along with Bob Epstein, Jane Doughty and Tom Haggin founded Sybase Incorporated - a successful software and services company which is now represented in more than 60 countries. It offers software to work with information, using relational databases, analytics and data warehousing solutions and mobile applications development platforms.
