Mark Cafferty is the president and chief executive officer of the San Diego Workforce Partnership, a non-profit organization that funds and manages job-training programs on behalf of the City and County of San Diego. 

Mark has spent the past seventeen years designing systems to support career advancement and economic opportunity for American workers.  He has served in numerous public-sector leadership positions and has been sought as a consultant on workforce development efforts throughout the country. 

A Boston native, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and Communications from Assumption College in Worcester, MA, and his advanced certification in Performance Measurement and Non-Profit Management from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.  In 2007 Mark was selected as a Center for Social Innovation Fellow for Non-Profit Leaders at Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

He resides in San Diego’s Point Loma neighborhood with his amazing wife Charlene Kakimoto and their beautiful son Kai.  Charlene is a dermatologist and a lieutenant commander with the United States Navy.