Mark Heynen - Serial Entrepreneur, Intl Business Development Guru (#21)

Published: Jan. 9, 2020, 9 a.m.

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is a serial entrepreneur and international business development guru Mark Heynen.

Mark Heynen (@markheynen) serves as PayJoy\u2019s Chief (Business Development) Officer. Prior to PayJoy, Mark had an extensive career starting companies in the US and abroad, and striking complex deals in the mobile ecosystem. In 1999, Mark joined the founding team of LibertySurf, France\u2019s first free ISP, and launched operations in the UK and Germany. Shortly thereafter in 2000, Mark co-founded retail analytics company Electrobug Technologies in London, which he eventually sold in 2006.\xa0

He moved back to the US that year to join Google\u2019s early BD team, where he worked on mapping the developing world and launching Android. He was recruited to Facebook in 2010 to launch the company\u2019s emerging market mobile strategy, including a number of complex carrier deals and the largest acquisition Facebook made at the time (Snaptu). Since leaving in 2012, Mark founded Photo Lab (sold to Dropbox) and led business development and operations for commercial drone startup Skycatch.


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