Operating Executive · CEO / COO

I build operating architecture that creates enterprise value, gets a company to the deal, and lands the plane when it closes.

Three-time C-suite operator. Three companies taken through acquisition. The work starts with building enterprise value across Operations, Finance, Engineering, Legal, and Security, then carries a company through diligence to close.

Portrait of Mark Bednarski
Mark BednarskiCEO / COO · Technology, Sports & AI
About

An operator's playbook, repeated on purpose.

I've spent my career stepping into founder-led and PE-backed companies and building the operating structure that lets them create value, scale, then close. Not once, but three times, across sports and media technology, marketplace and fintech operations, and enterprise SaaS.

Increasingly, that work means building AI-native operating systems: production-grade computer vision, workflow automation, and AI-assisted operations that change how a company actually runs, not pilots that stall after the demo.

At Infinite Athlete, I served as President of an AI and computer vision platform running across all 30 NFL stadiums, international games, the NBA, and F1, through its acquisition by Exos. That included Biocore, our biomechanical engineering subsidiary doing computational modeling and finite element simulation for elite athlete performance. At PWCC Marketplace, I was COO through its acquisition by Fanatics, running auction operations, authentication, lending, and payments. At iGrafx, I led Product & Technology through its acquisition by Banneker Partners, deploying white-labeled process intelligence software for EY, Deloitte, and KPMG.

Trained as a mechanical engineer, with an MBA, in Germany, which is where the instinct to treat a company as a system, not a org chart, comes from.

That instinct for discipline started even earlier: competing as an elite athlete while founding my first companies, still in school.

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C-SUITE ROLES, THREE ACQUISITIONS
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NFL STADIUMS UNDER OPERATIONAL SCOPE
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FUNCTIONS INTEGRATED PER ENGAGEMENT
Track Record

Three exits. One repeatable pattern.

Each role followed the same arc: step in, build enterprise value, take the company to the deal, and land the plane when it closes.

2021

iGrafx

SVP Product & Technology. Acquired by Banneker Partners. Stayed one year for transition.

2023

PWCC Marketplace

COO. Acquired by Fanatics. Retained COO title for over a year post-close.

2025

Infinite Athlete

President. Acquired by Exos. AI and computer vision across major sports leagues, including Biocore's biomechanical engineering work.

Approach

How the work actually happens.

01

Step In, Don't Study

I take operating responsibility, not an advisory seat on the side. The org has to feel the change, not just read about it.

02

Integrate the Five

Operations, Finance, Engineering, Legal, and Security are treated as one system with shared truth, not five separate reporting lines.

03

Build for Scrutiny

Every process gets built to the standard a buyer's diligence team would apply, because eventually, one will.

04

Make It AI-Native

Production computer vision, workflow automation, and AI-assisted operations get built into how the company runs, not layered on top as a side project.

Philosophy
The gap between a company that closes and one that doesn't is rarely the product. It's whether the operations can survive someone else looking closely.