Purpose In The Youth

Episode 34: Now the co-founder and ceo of Boston based athletic company, York Athletics Manufacturing, Mark has had quite the journey getting him to this position. Aside from trying different sports growing up, skateboarding and snowboarding gave him a chance to step away from the real world and be at one with himself and the small community of people he had became friends with. Studying at the University of Vermont gave him insight that there were unconventional ways to making a living aside from the typical 9-5 and if you followed your passion it would work itself out. After finishing school he packed a van with his buddies and headed west to Oregon where he worked at Van’s Skateboard/Snowboard camp as a seasonal help worker, then onto being a part of Nike’s second attempt launch to breaking into the skateboarding industry, Norton Motorcycles as their U.S. brand re-launch team, Puma as an International Product Line Management and then eventually to taking a leap of faith with his own venture McGarry & S