Mark T. Carlesimo has more than thirty-nine years of diversified general corporate, labor and employment, and transportation legal experience.  For the past five years, Mr. Carlesimo has been engaged in private practice representing clients in various industries, including transportation, health care, travel and hotels, entertainment, maritime, car rental, and waste management.  From 2006 through 2012, he served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of a publicly traded corporation, Velocity Express.  In this role, Mr. Carlesimo managed the entire legal department function, including mergers and acquisitions, state and federal DOT, SEC and other regulatory compliance in over forty states, corporate governance and finance, litigation management, labor and employment, real estate, software licensing, and franchising.  Mr. Carlesimo also supervised all aspects of the human resources function, including preparation and implementation of employee benefits policies, employment manuals, incentive compensation plans, executive employment and separation agreements, and non-competition and confidentiality agreements. 

From 1997 until its merger with Velocity in 2006, Mr. Carlesimo served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of CD&L, Inc., a $250 million dollar publicly traded package delivery company where he performed similar functions.  Prior to CD&L, Mr. Carlesimo served for fifteen years as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Cunard Line Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of London based conglomerate, Trafalgar House, PLC.  During his tenure, Cunard acquired and operated passenger cruise ships, hotels and resorts on a world-wide basis, and grew from £100 million to £550 million in revenue.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Carlesimo served as Staff Counsel to the Atlantic Container Division of Seatrain Lines, Inc., a $1.5 billion NYSE conglomerate with operations that included ocean container shipping, domestic oil refineries and U.S. flag shipbuilding. 

Mr. Carlesimo received a B.A. in Economics from Fordham University and received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.  Mr. Carlesimo is a member of the New York and New Jersey bars.