Mark Tedford

Mark Tedford General Information

Biography

Mr. Mark Tedford is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Valley Ridge Investment Partners. He has been a principal investor for years and has experience serving on and leading various governing boards. Mark earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts, while on a Navy ROTC scholarship at MIT and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He served two tours as an officer in the Navy on Marine bases in Japan and Quantico, Virginia. He also served as Managing Director, Corporate Strategy at TIAA-CREF Asset Management. Mark has an MBA too-from the Fuqua School at Duke-but if you look back a little further, you can see where his heart lies: He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Industrial Management from Tufts. He loves "things" and companies that make them, and he knows how to make product planning and manufacturing more efficient and customer-centric from end to end. (Mark was also a Navy ROTC scholarship student at MIT and served on active duty for five years.)