Mark & Helen Miles

Mark Miles

Helen Miles

Mark and Helen are natives of Indianapolis, who met shortly after completing their undergraduate degrees.  Mark’s career has been a series of Forest Gump like experiences.  For several years after college he was a political hack, ultimately managing several campaigns, including the campaign of the mayor of the city of Indianapolis and the U.S. Senate campaign of Dan Quayle (who went on to be VP), and several other congressional races. 

Following his time in politics, Mark founded, operated and sold a successful direct marketing agency.   He was then asked to lead the city’s bid to host the 1987 Pan American Games, which was successful and led to his appointment as the president of the Host Committee.   The Games were a major coming out party for the city of Indianapolis, hosting all the countries of the Western Hemisphere – competing in more sports than the Summer Olympic Games, selling more than 1million tickets, organizing 38,000 volunteers and selling the rights to and serving as host broadcaster of 23 hours of live coverage on CBS.  

Following the 1987 Pan Am Games, Mark went to work running public affairs for locally headquartered, Fortune 50, Eli Lilly and Company. Responsibilities included the Washington office and lobbying state legislatures, all external communications and the company’s Foundation.  While employed at Lilly, Mark was asked to serve (volunteer) as president of the not-for-profit that organized Indianapolis’ annual men’s professional tennis tournament.   Three years later he was appointed to serve as Chairman, President and CEO of the ATP Tour – the international governing body for the men’s professional tennis circuit.   Mark served in this position from 1990 through 2005. The Miles family was based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida during this time, except for 2.5 years living in the South of France and working out of the Monte Carlo ATP offices.  

In early 2006, Mark retired from the ATP and he and Helen moved back to their home in Indianapolis.  There he ran an organization of the region’s leading Chief Executive Officers who came together to do good in an attempt to grow the region and imprint a business mentality on governmental and civic affairs.  Mark stayed in that position from 2006 through 2012, and during this time was asked to chair the Bid Committee and ultimately the Host Committee for the 2012 Super Bowl, held in Indianapolis.

Mark has served as a director of countless civic organizations as well as a publicly traded, Fortune 500 company and a regional investment and banking firm,  as well as Hulman & Co.

In 2012 Mark was elected as an independent director to the board of Hulman & Co. (parent of IMS and IndyCar, among other enterprises).  In 2013 he was appointed as President and CEO of Hulman & Co. 

Helen and Mark have four great kids, Donald, Kelly, Sam and Jack, all college graduates beginning to start their own families.  The oldest two have presented them with 4 granddaughters from 1 to 3 years in age.  

Any parenting credit is entirely due to Helen, as Mark was traveling out of the U.S. more than 50% of the time over his 15 years of involvement in men’s professional tennis.  

Helen is trained as an artist, has been an art teacher, and today keeps as busy as she wishes in that regard, primarily with pencil illustration.  Their hope is that Helen might do a caricature of Kevin and Kim – presumably swimming in a barrel of Dom Perignon.

The family’s non-work pursuits are wide, but their love of the fruits of the vine has always been a priority.   So, they are very much looking forward to learning more and enjoying their time in Epernay.