Mark S. Valenti is President of The Sextant Group, which he founded in 1995.  He has over 25 years experience in broadcasting and communications.  Mark is an expert in digital media technologies, architectural acoustics, psychoacoustics, and trends in the digital media industry.  In his role as a consultant specializing in planning and design, Mark’s work extends across a broad range of projects, including feasibility studies, master plans, high-technology learning environments, recording, production, and broadcast facilities, performance spaces, and other places of public assembly.

Mr. Valenti is an internationally recognized authority I the integration of technology and the learning environment and is a member of the faculty for the Institute for Facilities Management of the Association for Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA).  He is a frequent presenter at professional conferences, where his topics have included “Emerging Technologies and the 21st Century Campus,” “Planning and Design for Future Technologies,” “The Digitally Integrated Learning Environment”, “Change Beyond the Speed of Light – Are Your Buildings Wired or Tired?”

Mark is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University and the University of Bridgeport.  Professional Affiliations include the Society for College and University Planning, the Audio engineering Society, and the Acoustical Society of America.  He is a member of the Board of Governors of InfoComm International and is past Chair of the Council of Independent Consultants in Audiovisual Technologies.