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.