Mark R. Nesselroad
CEO
Glenmark Holding Limited Liability
Company
SAMANTHA CART
Photo by Rebecca Devono.
ACCORDING TO MARK NESSELROAD, CEO of Glenmark Holding
LLC, the most adventurous thing he has ever done is go into
business.
“When you have no money and you want to borrow a couple
million dollars, it takes a lot of convincing,” he says.
An entrepreneur at heart, Nesselroad’s competitive nature
pushed him to take the plunge. He began his first venture into
business in 1984 when he purchased a nursing home in Park-
ersburg, but this was merely the foundation for what he would
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go on to achieve. By 1995, he had founded and grown Glen-
mark Associates, Inc. into the largest nursing home company
in West Virginia.
“If you work hard, you can do and make anything you
want,” he says. “I started out as a maintenance man in a nurs-
ing home and worked my way up to vice president of Cross-
gates. Arthur Schwotzer, the owner, provided me inspiration,
guidance and latitude to learn and make mistakes. I wanted to
become an owner, but I realized the only way I could own my