Mark Broin has also studied in the areas of Business Law, Reproductive Endocrinology, Human Genomics and Veterinary Medicine
"I attended high school in Minnesota, and participated in football, cross country, and baseball. Upon graduation from High School, I was accepted in General Motors cooperative electrical engineering program, at General Motors Institute (“GMI”, now Kettering University) in Flint, Michigan. I lived on my own for two years while in the GM work/study program, traveling every three months between Flint and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where AC Electronics, my sponsoring division was located. I later transferred to the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Technology, where I studied Physics and other disciplines. I have nearly eight years of college-level study in electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, business law, medicine, and human genomics.
I paid for my college and living expenses by working up to four jobs at a time. While with General Motors, I spent two years rotating through various work responsibilities at AC Electronics, where we developed ICBM guidance systems and did work with the Apollo Moon-shot Space Program. While attending the University of Minnesota, I was a grocery stockman, a bar tender, a cook, a day-laborer, a computer programmer, and a chemical researcher.
My education was interrupted when I accepted a job offer from Ashland Chemical Company’s Research and Development Laboratories in Minneapolis. When Ashland moved its laboratory operations to Columbus, Ohio, I was recruited by a group of Minneapolis area business people to help turn around a struggling company by the name of International Dairy Queen, Inc. I spent the next 32 years of my working career in a variety of management positions at “Dairy Queen”, until my retirement as vice-president at the end of 2003. I played a part in moving the company from near bankruptcy to a successful business, later sold to legendary value investor Warren Buffet."
