The Infrastructure Masons Fund Committee is broadly dedicated to researching, recommending, and implementing charitable donations, investments in people and industry, and other monetary and volunteer contributions that advance the digital infrastructure industry. Participation is limited to Infrastructure Masons members.
Sponsorship Committee Chair
Mark Monroe, Infrastructure Masons 2nd Degree Master member, serves as the Sponsorship Committee Chair.
Mark Monroe is President of Energetic Consulting, Inc. His 30+ years’ of technical and business experience in the IT industry spans many layers of the stack from data center design and operations, IT operations, application and system design, as well as professional services, sales, program management, and outsourcing management.
Mark worked for more than 17 years at Sun Microsystems in numerous leadership and executive roles including the Director of Sustainable Computing, leading the company to attain no. 14 in Newsweek’s “Green 500” awards. During his tenure, he also served as a founding board member of The Green Grid, an IT industry consortium focused on resource efficient data centers and business computing environments.
After Sun, Mark served as the Executive Director of The Green Grid, leading the publication of 20 technical papers and on-line tools in one year, and expanding membership and global reach including the first chapter in China. He continues to work on sustainability advisory boards with the University of Colorado and local Colorado governments. Mark has a BS and MS Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Master Black Belt.
Objectives
The Sponsorship Committee’s mission is to provide due diligence around potential iMasons sponsors, especially regarding relationships to iMasons board members and leaders. The committee reviews all significant proposed sponsorships and makes recommendations to the board about whether a potential sponsorship offer should be accepted by iMasons. Recommendations and the backup information for making them are documented and archived by the Sponsorship Committee and can be reviewed in the event of any questions regarding the acceptability of a given iMasons-sponsor-fiduciary relationship.