Mark Armentrout is President and CEO of Texas Technology Partners, with 30 years experience in electricity, information technology, oil and gas, renewables, and banking.

Mr.  Armentrout is a Managing Director of the Texas Institute, an independent nonprofit institute for  technology research, located at the University of Texas at Dallas.  See www.texasinstitute.org. 

From 2005 through 2008, Mr. Armentrout served as Board Chair of ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.  ERCOT manages the electric flow to 85 percent of the state’s electric load,  with 23 million customers, 550 generating units, and over 40,000 miles of transmission. Mark was a member of the board from 2003 through 2009.

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, 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 managed information technology services for exploration and production, responsible for staffs in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.  

Mr. Armentrout also serves the community on a number of boards, including Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas, the UTD Erik Jonsson Engineering School Industrial Advisory Board, the TCU Science and Engineering Department, the UNT Information Technology and Decision Sciences Advisory Board. He is also an Advisory Board member for Serenity High School. While in Alaska in the 1990s, Mr. Armentrout was instrumental in working with the Governor’s office, native and industrial groups to bring the Internet to schools in the Alaskan bush. He is a member of IEEE.

He holds 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.