Business Ventures
My business ventures started with buying and selling bicycles and then later, motorcycles and cars on my parent’s street corner at 606 N. Clay Avenue in Kirkwood, Missouri. When I was in college I sold bicycles out of my dorm room and cars out of a local junkyard. Then, my late friend, Frank Galanti and I started a used motorcycle shop in a Veatch Oil gas station in Carbondale, Illinois, while we were in college there.
In 1988, I founded Mark Zweig & Associates in Natick, Massachusetts, which later became ZweigWhite, Inc., a twice-listed Inc. 500 management consulting and publishing firm for architects and engineers. I retired from active duty in ZweigWhite in 2004, and started Mark Zweig, Inc., in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to pursue my real estate and speculative renovation projects and teach entrepreneurship at The Walton College. I rejoined ZweigWhite as a partner and director in July of 2010 to start a new Fayetteville office and help get several new product and service lines up and running. I am also an investor and board member in the amazing seismic consulting and structural engineering firm, Miyamoto International, Inc., based in Sacramento, California, and a board member of the fantastic engineering, architecture, and consulting firm, Ross & Baruzzini based in St. Louis, as well as outside director for the high growth, Orange County-based design and construction firm, GKK Works.