Melmark Elects Greg Strakosch to Board of Directors

Melmark, a multi-state human service provider with premier private special education schools, and professional development, training, and research centers, announces the election of Greg Strakosch to the Board of Directors for Melmark Services. Mr. Strakosch is the Executive Chairman and co-founder of TechTarget, which offers data-driven marketing services to business-to-business technology vendors.

“We are delighted to have Greg join our Board of Directors,” says Rita M. Gardner, M.P.H., LABA, BCBA, President and CEO, Melmark. “He has supported Melmark for five years. Greg understands our mission to enhance the lives of children and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families in New England, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. We look forward to his leadership and the business acumen he will bring to the Board.”

“I became familiar with Melmark through a current member of its Board of Directors. Once I learned more about their work with children and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their families, I knew I had to support their mission,” says Greg Strakosch. “Melmark’s vision to expand and raise the quality of service delivery systems throughout the country is one of which I am pleased to be a part.”

Prior to founding TechTarget, named one of Massachusetts’ Best Companies to work for by both The Boston Globe and The Boston Business Journal, Strakosch was President of the Technology Division of United Communications Group. He joined United Communications Group when the company acquired Reliability Ratings, an IT publishing firm that he founded in 1989. Before Reliability Ratings, Strakosch worked at EMC Corporation, where he was one of the company’s first thirty employees and held various executive roles including opening the company’s first office in Silicon Valley and launching the company’s first product for the mainframe market. He graduated from Boston College and serves on the Boston College Board of Regents.

About Melmark:

With service divisions in Berwyn, PA, Andover, MA, and Charlotte, NC, Melmark is a multi-state human service provider with premier private special education schools, and professional development, training, and research centers.

We are committed to enhancing the lives of individuals with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families by providing exceptional evidence-based and applied behavior analytic services to every individual, every day. More information is available at www.melmark.org and www.melmarkne.org.

Melmark is Mission First: Every Individual, Every Day.