Mark B. Tucker

Mark B. Tucker, principal of TD+, has over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing and specializes in developing business relationships. Prior to founding TD+, Mark served as the Executive Vice President at A. Pomerantz & Company, a regional full service office solutions company. Mark was responsible for expanding the customer base and developing growth opportunities in new accounts. Thanks to his intuitiveness to clients’ needs, Mark built lasting client relationships in Banking, Education and the public sector.

Under Mark’s guidance, A. Pomerantz secured long-term engagements with leading corporate accounts, such as Comcast Cablevisions. In fact, Mark’s involvement with Comcast was instrumental in landing a national agreement that resulted in the creation of several new facilities. Eventually this relationship expanded into other divisions of Comcast throughout the United States.

Prior to joining A. Pomerantz, Mark spent time developing his expert sales and marketing skills at American Hospital Supply Company after nurturing his finance capabilities at Ernest & Young. Mark holds a BS degree in Accounting from Widener University and has completed numerous sales and leadership seminars.

Mark currently resides in Wyncote, PA along with wife Lynne, daughter Shelby and sons Jason and Jordan. For over twenty years Mark has been active in the community coaching basketball at Germantown Friends School and Sonny Hill Basketball League.

 

Susan C. Sargent, CMC

Susan C. Sargent has provided strategic planning, marketing, operations, and management assistance to healthcare providers nationally for over 25 years with a focus on bringing best practice medicine to best practice design. As such, she has worked with acute care general hospitals, multi-hospital systems, academic medical centers, and specialized behavioral health facilities, contributing currency and fluency in the treatment, management, and operational issues facing providers. Ms. Sargent is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC).

Sargent Healthcare Management Advisors, LLC is registered with the Central Contractor Registry (SBA) as a woman-owned small business. In her work with healthcare providers, Ms. Sargent has frequently participated in the assessment of feasibility for new service lines, expanded service lines, new facilities, and expanded facilities. The nature of her involvement has focused on detailed market analysis, community needs assessments, community demand assessments, service line sizing (inpatient and non-inpatient), resource demand and capacity analysis, and integration with facility and financial feasibility determinations.

For example, in conjunction with a healthcare architecture firm, Susan managed the master planning process for an urban academic medical center’s seven hospital campuses and 13 ambulatory care sites. Integrating the existing and proposed uses with the medical center’s strategic plan for patient care and volumes, the team produced seven discrete master plans for the hospital campuses (in excess of 4 million SF) as well as a consolidated master plan for the ambulatory care centers. The plans were approved by the seven hospital boards and were presented to the System Board; approval was secured for over $1 billion of renovation and new construction, including a new Greenfield hospital. The team was subsequently retained to assess the clinical programming needs, professional office space needs, common area space needs, and patient flow for relocation of over 900 staff within this medical center to three separate locations.

Ms. Sargent received her bachelor’s degree from Smith College and her Masters in Business Administration from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

 

Darlene Jenkins

Darlene Jenkins is considered a paradigm in development and a visionary in Supplier Diversity best practices and diverse business solutions.

Ms. Jenkins’ history has been focused on procurement strategies and diverse solutions with major corporations. Her passion was expressed as the Director of Supplier Diversity at Agilent Technologies, Inc., and at Hewlett Packard/Agilent for well over 20 years. During her tenure, she built a reputation for achievement in indirect and direct procurement, marketing, human resources, government and sales support, and channel partner development. She also was an active participant within industry organizations and the Federal Government to help influence and develop consistent MWDVBE and second tier requirements.

She subsequently led an organization serving 140 corporations and 350 + minority-owned businesses (MBEs). Through leadership of the Minority Supplier Development Council, Darlene doubled the capacity of resources and opportunities in less than a year and was responsible for all aspects of the operation including creating and implementing strategic plans, fundraising, attracting and retaining corporate members and MBEs, marketing to board candidates, and establishing strategic alliances. Under her leadership, the PA-NJ-DE Minority Supplier Development Council expanded its outreach and gained operational support from Fortune 500 companies. During her role as President/CEO of the Council, she developed creative ways for inclusion and advancement of minority businesses. In 2007, she led the launch of the Business Consortium Group which was formed for the purpose of continuing to help build the value proposition and brand of why “doing business with certified Minority Businesses” is smart, easy and full of value.

Darlene served on the International Sourcing Study team for international expansion of US diversity programs to global presence, and as a leading task force participant for support and investigation of emerging global/international perspectives for Supplier Diversity.

Ms. Jenkins has been the recipient of numerous awards including the MSDC of PA-NJ-DE Leadership Award, the NCSDC Excellence in Supplier Diversity Award, the Minority Supplier Development Council of PA-NJ-DE’s Bronze Eagle Award for outstanding achievement in supply chain diversity efforts and customer satisfaction, and the MSDC of PA-NJ-DE Outstanding Service Award.

Her education and training includes Amos Tuck School of Business, University of Pennsylvania and advanced leadership and development seminars/workshops. Darlene brings a proven record of success in assisting clients with customized diversity solutions. She was featured in “World Class Supply Management, The Key to Supply Chain Management,” and in “Supply Management: Implementer of Three of the Firm's Social Responsibilities.”