Mr. Mark Kontos

Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer

Mr. Mark Kontos is senior vice president, chief financial officer (CFO), and a member of the executive council of The MITRE Corporation.

Mr. Kontos is responsible for ensuring MITRE's financial strength and maintaining its leadership as a preeminent manager of federally funded research and development centers. Since joining MITRE in 2005, Mr. Kontos has led the corporation's program for improving the company's business processes, financial information, management systems, performance metrics, budgeting and planning protocols, and decision support tools.

Before joining MITRE, Mr. Kontos served as a financial consultant to Northrop Grumman, advising on strategic business initiatives for their IT Technical Services Group.

Previously, Mr. Kontos was CFO, senior vice president, and a member of the executive committee at Battelle Memorial Institute, where he introduced value-driven performance metrics, improved strategic planning processes, and initiated strategies to commercialize intellectual property. While at Battelle, he also managed the company's capital-raising process, supervised its $1.8 billion investment portfolio, instituted best practices in financial controls, maintained an A+ credit rating, and served as a board director for eight of Battelle's 12 subsidiaries. Additionally, he served on the boards and executive committees and chaired the finance/audit/risk management committees of the Brookhaven and Oak Ridge National Laboratories.

Prior to Battelle, Mr. Kontos was CFO and vice president of AK Steel Corporation, where he engineered a financial turnaround returning the company to profitability, culminating in a recapitalization of the firm. Earlier in his career, he spent 15 years with Citibank/Citigroup, holding a variety of domestic and overseas positions, including vice president of the World Corporation Group and vice president of Institutional Recovery Management.

He is a member of Financial Executives International and the Corporate Executive Board Working Council of CFOs.

Mr. Kontos received his bachelor's degree in political science from Beloit College and his MBA in finance and international business from the University of Chicago.

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