{"id":300,"date":"2014-07-17T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.195.166\/~meliorin\/?page_id=300"},"modified":"2017-08-10T14:40:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:40:28","slug":"mark-land","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/meliorinnovations.com\/nextgen\/mark-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Land: Chief Executive Officer &#038; Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_971\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-971\" class=\"wp-image-971 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/meliorinnovations.com\/nextgen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mark-Land3-e1482856923666.jpeg\" alt=\"Mark Land\" width=\"200\" height=\"282\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Land, Chief Executive Officer &amp; Director<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mark\u00a0Land founded the company as Melior Technology in 2011.\u00a0Prior to Melior, Land co-founded Foro Energy, an alternative drilling technology company, in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Foro Energy won the largest ARPA-E grant for further technology development. Land was responsible for identifying technology, managing all operations and finance, and grew the company to a size of 25 employees before his departure in December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Foro Energy commercializes high-power laser applications for the oil, natural gas, geothermal and mining industries. Prior to Foro Energy, Land was the co-founder of Steridian Corporation, a semiconductor technology company specializing in high-definition video. Steridian technology was the precursor to the innovations currently under development at Compound Photonics, a leading international video semiconductor technology company.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Steridian, Land was a co-founder of Cignal Global Communications, the world\u2019s first commercial Voice over IP company. Over a five year period, Cignal grew to 200 employees in 17\u00a0countries around the world and $60 million in revenue. In November 2000, Cignal was sold for $200 million to a European cable company.<\/p>\n<p>Land holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from Washington University in Saint Louis and a Masters in Business Administration from NYU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark\u00a0Land founded the company as Melior Technology in 2011.\u00a0Prior to Melior, Land co-founded Foro Energy, an alternative drilling technology company, in 2008. Foro Energy won the largest ARPA-E grant for further technology development. Land was responsible for identifying technology, managing all operations and finance, and grew the company to a size of 25 employees before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-300","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meliorinnovations.com\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meliorinnovations.com\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meliorinnovations.com\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meliorinnovations.com\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meliorinnovations.com\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/meliorinnovations.com\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"http:\/\/meliorinnovations.com\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meliorinnovations.com\/nextgen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}