About Mark
Mark DeCollibus is formerly Vice President, Marketing Services, at TIAA-CREF, a $863- billion Fortune 100 financial services company and the leading retirement system for people who work in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields. Mr. DeCollibus has more than 40 years of experience specializing in marketing operations, marketing communications, production, process, and project management, with a unique and demonstrated focus on implementing solutions for driving cost and process efficiency.
Prior to joining TIAA-CREF in January 2007, Mr. DeCollibus was President of Print Mail Consulting Group, LLC. There he focused on helping leading financial services, healthcare and direct mail firms analyze and benchmark their communications practices and implement solutions that consistently led to reduced costs, higher productivity, and improved customer satisfaction.
Mr. DeCollibus has also served as Senior Vice President, Marketing Services, with Zurich Scudder Investments, a division of Deutsche Bank, which managed over $450 billion of assets. He also held the position of Vice President of Publishing and Document Services for Fidelity Investments.
Throughout his career, Mr. DeCollibus has consistently drawn from a unique combination of creativity — his studies is in the Arts — and engineering — his practical experience in Marketing Operations and Publishing — to focus on uncovering and solving “the right problem.” As a result, he has uncovered inefficiencies and creatively worked to eliminate unnecessary expense, saving organizations tens of millions of dollars, while enhancing the creative product.
Over the course of his career, Mr. DeCollibus has coupled his state-of-the art technology knowledge with proficiency in such innovative methodologies as Process Management & Improvement, Just in Time II®, and Balanced Scorecard to increase productivity and reduce costs. His successes at Scudder resulted in a collapse of shareholder communications redundancies within three lines of business, creating a streamlined operation and reducing $19 million in costs over a two-year time period. This effort resulted in an annualized saving for the combined organization of $11 million on a budget of $50 million.
Prior to joining financial services at Fidelity and Scudder, Mr. DeCollibus spent time in the high-tech industry with Lotus, Honeywell Bull, GenRad and Data General, in consumer goods with American Tourister, and manufacturing with Brown and Sharpe.