Mark Ladd
Principal at Monarch Equities
Mark Ladd
Principal at Monarch Equities
Chicago, Illinois
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2021 - Current
Monarch Equities real estate fund invests in flex industrial assets in growing U.S. cities. The fund makes direct financial investments in stable, cash-flow-positive commercial real estate developments in the U.S.
Managing Partner
2021
Identifying and backing next generation technologies and business models across a range of sectors, including but not limited to clean food chains, artificial intelligence, ecopackaging, energy initiatives, and DeFi fintech. We seek out ventures that have the potential to disrupt markets, challenge the status quo, and create significant value for all stakeholders involved.
Chief Executive Officer
2018
Malex Enterprises is a closely held investment and asset management firm Investing in PE and later stage tech venture capital focusing on disruption and innovation in growth markets.
Limited Partner
2020
Custodia Bank is a Wyoming bank formed to serve as a compliant bridge to the U.S. dollar payments system and a custodian of digital assets that can meet the strictest level of institutional custody standards.
Limited Partner
2020
MANTIS is an early stage technology investment firm supporting the most innovative companies across consumer tech, media & entertainment, distributed ledger and other emerging technologies.
Limited Partner
2020
Limited Partner for mHub Product Impact Fund that works with startups from concept to prototype to production to remove the barriers for hardtech entrepreneurs and manufacturers to commercialize new physical products and build sustainable businesses.
Member Board Of Directors
2018
The Artory registry is the art and collectibles industries’ first object-oriented database that clearly distinguishes vetted, cryptographically signed data with images. Artory is creating the next generation of financial products by building blockchain data on top of trusted physical artworks for efficient trade in the financial and crypto markets. The Artory Registry offers security of investment and pride of ownership for physical art, digital art, NFTs, and collectibles. Every registered artwork is verified by expert Partners and secured in perpetuity on blockchain.
Venture Partner
2017 - 2020
New Stack is a venture capital firm investing in pre-seed/ seed stages of early-stage startups. Mark was a member of the New Stack Ventures Investment Committee.
Founder/ CEO
2012 - 2017
Founder & CEO of interactive augmented reality (AR) mobile gaming platform. Led all aspects of the implementation of LyteShot's platform and related business management functions, as well as guiding the company's strategic plan and development of cloud mobile gaming portal technology with mobile (iOS/ Android), augmented reality, and hardware peripheral (IoT) eco-system. LyteShot is a interactive mobile gaming platform which utilizes a broad array of sensors for its hardware peripheral system that connects with mobile gaming apps on user's mobile devices creating a new gaming experience that can take place anywhere. The cloud-based platform digitally connects multi-player physical gaming through the internet via players' mobile devices with augmented reality (AR) smartglasses. Named "Best Augmented Reality Game" at Augmented World Expo (AWE) and awarded CES Innovation Design Award.
Associate Director
2010 - 2012
Responsible for the development of Federal and Commercial Real Estate sectors for Chicago Office. Oversaw the procurement/ managed the design of the new Social Security Administration's (SSA) National Support Center (NSC) - a General Services Administration (GSA) Design Excellence project. Mark’s commercial portfolio includes the management of the design effort for the new 1.8 million square foot Chemsunny Plaza corporate headquarters located near Tiananmen Square in Beijing for China’s third-largest oil company. Additionally, he was part of the project management team responsible for the design development and implementation for over 350 Charles Schwab retail facilities throughout the United States. Managed integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) implementation for projects such as NATO, SSA Data Center, and Dirksen Courthouse Renovation.