Mark Alan Lenox

Your brand has a story
to tell.

A great brand represents a significant investment in time, money, and passion.

I build and communicate those stories through creative direction, marketing programs, and product design.

I lead businesses forward, creating new brand opportunities, always building stronger connections with the customer.

If you need to strengthen your brand story through innovative marketing, creative and merchandising let’s talk.

Mark passionately drives brand persona and profits through curated design, and targeted marketing.

With over 30 years building lifestyle brands, Mark developed skills in marketing, merchandising, and sales through e-commerce, specialty, and mass channels. He has successfully developed innovative digital tactics, as well as managed cross-functional teams of merchants, marketers, designers, and researchers.

Growing up as a buyer and product developer for major retailers taught him the importance of both brand and the bottom line.

As his career progressed he had the opportunity to work with both start-ups as well as Fortune 50 organizations, always focused on engaging storytelling through marketing and product design.

Today, Mark leads Branding, Merchandising, and Creative  for clients, helping to strengthen brands through great design.

Mark’s lives in the Midwest near Chicago.




“Mark is an all-around great leader, professional, and person.”

Jeremy Mishork, VP, Sales and Marketing

“A full-stack merchandiser with big-corporate and small-and-scrappy experience; Mark can be a force multiplier teams who need the right shepherd to organize, evaluate, and plot the right course for success.”

Eric West, Chief Strategy Officer IMS (div. of Omnicom) 2018-2022

“Left brain power, right brain passion. Mark and I worked together as client and colleague for over 4 years. We set far-reaching goals and achieved them. We invented new ways of working and then reinvented them again when we had to.”

Griffin Stenger, Managing Director, The Concept Farm Creative Agency

“Working with Mark as Creative Director to Creative Director was a pleasure. His aesthetic and connection to the bigger picture is a relief and to learn from. …I'd love to work with him again.”

Ray Mendez, Managing Partner, Masa and Boz brand and Design Agency

“Mark is a smart, creative and intuitive brand innovator who approaches problem solving with an open mind. Mark will springboard, rather than limit opportunity based on his extensive experience, and remains a student of collaborative learning. As an agency partner, I was inspired to bring Mark my best thinking, and was never afraid to voice a new way of thinking.”

Randy Herbertson, Principal, The Visual Brand

“Mark has an impeccable eye for unique and beautiful design.”

Natalie Bowen, Owner, Natalie Bowen Designs

“Mark is a business/creative visionary, always pushing the envelope with his ideas far ahead of the status quo. Mark creates a working partnership and strives for excellence through organization and communication.”

Kevin Johnson, Chief Strategy Officer