Mark Armentrout BIO

Mark Armentrout is CEO of Texas Technology Partners and has 30 years experience in information technology.

Mark is currently a Board Member of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), a position he has held since 2003. From 2005 through 2008, Mark served as Board Chair of ERCOT.

From 2000 through 2006 he was an information technology executive vice president for MBNA, the world’s largest independent credit card company, which is now part of Bank of America.

Prior to joining MBNA, Mr. Armentrout spent 24 years with Atlantic Richfield Company, ARCO, the nation’s sixth largest integrated oil and gas company that was acquired by British Petroleum in 2000. In his last position with ARCO, he was CIO, manager of information technology services for exploration and production, responsible for ARCO’s exploration and production information technology staffs in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Earlier in his career, he held regional CIO positions with ARCO in Anchorage, Houston, and Plano, TX. He also managed an information technology research department in ARCO's research lab specializing in advanced computing, visualization and artificial intelligence.

He began his career as a technical programmer working on systems for the Prudhoe Bay field on the North Slope of Alaska in 1976.

He also serves the community on a number of boards including Big Brothers Big Sisters of Collin County and the University of North Texas Information Technology and Decision Sciences Department. He is also Board Chair of Serenity High School, a school devoted to students recovering from substance abuse. He is a former Board Member and Executive Director of the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary.

While in Alaska in the 1990s, Mr. Armentrout was instrumental in working with government, native, and industrial groups to bring the Internet to education in the Alaskan bush, primarily through the Alaska Education Summit. He is a member of IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.

Mr. Armentrout has a bachelor’s degree in computer science, summa cum laude, and a master’s degree in political science with a major in philosophy from Texas A&M University at Commerce.