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Profile: Mark Agustin

Since June, Mark Agustin said, he has been doing two years of work, or at least it feels like that in his new role as vice president and chief financial officer for PMSI-Tmesys in Tampa

By FRED W. WRIGHT
Published August 28, 2006

Since June, Mark Agustin said, he has been doing two years of work, or at least it feels like that in his new role as vice president and chief financial officer for PMSI-Tmesys in Tampa

"Any new venture I get into, I'm very interested in getting to know everything there is to know about the business from the finance perspective: how we go to market, how we deliver, how we manage our customers and employees.

"I spend a lot of time in the first part of a new venture getting my head around the new model," Agustin said. Fortunately, he added, "I'm a workaholic by trade."

PMSI-Tmesys is a specialty managed-care company serving the workers' compensation and catastrophic care market. "We provide cost-containment services and products for folks who have been injured and are covered under workers' compensation," Agustin said. The company interacted with an estimated 200,000 patients during the current fiscal year that will end Sept. 30, he said.

Agustin said he enjoys the challenge of managing a large operation. "My focus is to make sure you bring the right people on board, train them and give them the tools," he said.

He said he has often been in a position to help launch a business to a new level. "The fun for me is being part of an opportunity or team or company where you have an opportunity to grow. You look back and can say you were a part of something that grew."

A native of Philadelphia, Agustin earned a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1990 from Widener University in Chester, Pa. His career began in public accounting, but Agustin said he quickly determined that wasn't the career path he wanted. "I quickly got out of that and got involved in what I call operational finances, where you're more involved, not necessarily in core accounting, but in analysis and financial planning."

He joined Bowman & Co. in New Jersey, then Silo in Philadelphia. In 1994, Agustin took a position as director of finance - mergers and acquisitions, with ADP Financial Information and Processing Services in Jersey City, N.J.

Two years later, Agustin joined HealthPlan Services in Tampa as vice president of finance. In 1998, he joined IMR Global in Clearwater as vice president of finance, planning and analysis, where he remained until 2001. That year, Agustin moved to Orlando where he became executive vice president and chief operating and financial officer for Coastline Distortions.

He joined Zavata in Atlanta in 2003 as chief operating and financial officer. As a result, Agustin has homes both in Atlanta and in Tampa, where he and his wife, Julie, live.

For stress relief, Agustin, 39, said he works out daily at a nearby gym, either late at night or early in the morning. "That's how I decompress," he said.

Agustin also confesses to being an avid Philadelphia Eagles football fan. "I grew up a couple of blocks from the stadium," he said. "I'm a die-hard, bleed-green Eagles fan. I still wear my Eagles regalia."

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

2003-2006: Chief operating office and chief financial officer, Zavata, Atlanta.

2001-2003: Executive vice president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer, Coastline Distribution, Orlando.

1998-2001: Vice president of finance, planning and analysis, IMR Global, Clearwater.

1996-1998: Vice president of finance, HealthPlan Services, Tampa.

1994-1996: Director of Finance, ADP Financial Information and Processing Services, Jersey City, N.J.

PREVIOUS POSITION: Chief operating officer, chief financial officer, Zavata, Atlanta

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