My Background

Mark Selvaggi is a Financial Services Professional with NYLIFE Securites LLC.  Before beginning his career in financial serves, Mark co-founded and acted as CEO of Plaster Fun Time, a drop-in art center for children. He grew the business to 60 employees across 9 retail locations, a manufacturing plant and administrative offices in the Boston area. Upon the sale of Plaster Fun Time, Mark immediately began his career at New York Life where he was able to take 20 years of entrepreneurial and business leadership experience to focus in helping other small business owners like himself.

In addition to offering personal life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance¹, financial strategies, college funding and retirement planning, Mark has a strong focus on helping small business owners with exit strategies, buy-sell agreements and key person insurance. His background has provided him with the ability to understand the needs of small business owners from employee retention to sales and marketing to managing cash flow. Through the process of selling his own company, he has become a trusted resource for many clients looking for advice on how to package their own businesses for sale.

Mark lives in the coastal town of Scituate, Massachusetts with his wife Jessica and 2 children, Ella and AJ. In his spare time, he enjoys being on the water and races in a summer sailing league in Scituate Harbor. In the winter months, Mark takes his competitive spirit to Boston Harbor where he races J/24s in the Boston Sailing Center Frostbite Series.


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