About

Hi there! I'm the founder of Founder of Bradhurst Ventures, which partners with early stage consumer brands as an operator, advisor, and investor. Previously, I spent 4 years at Away, where I joined the company as the third employee and first exec hire, and served as as VP, Growth Marketing & E-Commerce and VP, International.

Select Business Press

The Books to Read Before You Start a Business, Wall Street Journal | Print Edition PDF
Online Startups Vie for Shoppers' Attention on Prime Day, CNBC
How Luxury Brand SENREVE Found Growth in Asia, Forbes
SENREVE Eyes Asia as Biggest Growth Opportunity, Glossy
SENREVE Appoints New Chief Growth Officer, WWD | PDF
Next Generation Luxury Brand SENREVE Appoints Industry Veteran Mark Chou As Chief Growth Officer, PR Newswire
How DTC Growth Experts Built Their Brands, Faraday
How Levi's, Away, and Ulta Are Embracing Retail Disruption, DMN
5 Questions To Expect In An E-Commerce Job Interview From Glossier, Away, And VF Corp, Forbes
Talking About Customer Focus with Away, StyleSage
Meet the 8 Companies That Will Be Hitting the Runway at the NY Fashion Tech Lab Demo Day, AlleyWatch
NYC FinTech Labs Chief Steps Down, Fortune

Lifestyle Press and Profiles

On The Street with Bill Cunningham, The New York Times
Why These Four Watches Make Excellent Gifts, Gear Patrol
Contributor Twenty: Mark Chou, Bradhurst Ventures, Le Cinq
Driving Growth for Away: Mark Chou, SENE
Field Tester: Mark Chou, Wool & Prince
Meet Up Monday - ONA, The Manual
The Essentials: What a Marketing Director Takes to Work Every Day, WeWork Creator
Noma Served Garlic Fruit Leather and Moss at NYC Pop-Up, Eater

Case Studies and Briefs

Away: Scaling a DTC Travel Brand, Harvard Business Publishing
Highly Effective Strategies for Increasing Average Order Value, Shippo
Member Brief: Triple Frontier, 2PM | PDF

Speaking Engagements

DTC in the Year of Change: 2020’s Impact on Consumer Appetite for DTC, Diffusion PR and YouGov
2020 MBA Marketing Case Study Competition - Away: Scaling a DTC Travel Brand, Cornell SC Johnson School of Management
Direct Currents: DTC Growth Strategies, Faraday / AWS Loft
Retail Brand-Building, Wharton Graduate Retail Conference 2019
Leveraging Technology for More Effective Marketing: Speaking to Millennial Consumers, Wharton Marketing Conference 2018
The Future of Retail: Understanding the Evolution of Physical Space in Commerce, Blackstone Real Estate Innovation Series (w/ NEA)
Testing New Digital Marketing Strategies To Drive Acquisition, eTail East 2018
Marketing Playbooks for All Sizes, CommerceNext 2018
Direct-to-Consumer Growth, Burrow
The Next Five Years of Marketing, Voray
Customer Experiences in an Omnichannel World, Kustomer Direct to Consumer Summit
Wharton Retail Club Startup Trek, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Channel Optimization in a Digital World: Lean Omnichannel Strategy, Columbia Business School MAC Conference 2017
Data-Driven: The Modern Marketing Series, Simon Data
Working Through the Challenges with Social Advertising: Getting True Engagement and Returns, eTail East 2017
Marketing at Direct-to-Consumer Startups, Columbia Business School
The Influencer Economy, Northzone Ventures