When Marale was founded in 2005, it was intended to exist as an unique type of investment company that took an active role in its investments. Our team’s specialization is in business re-engineering, and instead of being passive investors that make money by gambling, our route was through building sustainable shareholder value. This meant getting involved with day-to-day operations of our investments.

To date, we have made several investments in manufacturing, consumer, technology and communications companies. Holding double digit stakes in these firms.

A few years ago, other companies started to hear about our unique skill sets and accomplishments wanted to us to do special projects inside their firms as hired guns. Consulting had long been vilified in our hearts and minds, we did not want to become a consulting firm. In our tenures in the Fortune100, we had watched too much good money go out the dollar to the big, so-called smart consulting firms. Tens and hundreds of millions of dollars had passed through fingers back then, for a few reports, a few very poor implementations of half baked processes and tools. Nothing ever broke even, much less made a return on investment. Nightmares are still vivid in our minds, years after leaving corporate.

If this firm was going to do any consulting, it would be the way we do things, not the way others do it. We do things for real, measurable results. No excuses. We would treat each customer as if we were a major shareholder, regularly making decisions that might not always benefit our bottom line. If we could not offer results, what was the point of wasting our time? Muchless that of those we are aiming to help?

So began our road to the business consulting world.

About us, the founders.
We name the company after ourselves, Mark Vilimek and Alex Stoylar. It is a seemingly strange concoction, but came together as a part of a modern interpretation of the traditional practice of naming the company after yourself. It is not an egoistical move, but one of putting your name behind something meaningful. Never letting down the people that we work with, that put their trust into us. Something we feel that is lost amongst the world of instant gratification and short sighted decisions. Everyone on the team knows our deep philosophical beliefs that has pushed this company, and every person and company we have worked with, forward.