Mark Bottini

After spending nearly 14 years leading the Paychex sales organization, Mark Bottini shifted into a special advisor role in July 2025. Under Bottini’s leadership of sales, Paychex experienced steady year-over-year growth and has been named one of the top 10 companies to sell for by Selling Power magazine. Bottini is driven to maintain a culture of growth for Paychex, and, to that end, he develops leaders who are committed to company growth, employee development, and bringing value to clients.

A senior executive with close to thirty years of experience, Bottini was most recently vice president of sales for Ricoh, North America and brings with him a strong record of sales success and demonstrated leadership. At Ricoh, Bottini was responsible for a sales organization of more than 3,500 members. In previous leadership roles with the company, Bottini had responsibility for service and operations as well as sales. He assumed his last position with Ricoh in 2008 when the company acquired IKON Office Solutions, Inc. During his nearly 20 years with IKON, Bottini served in a variety of sales leadership and field management roles.

Bottini attended Long Beach State University in Long Beach, Calif., where he majored in marketing. He was named to The Modern Sale® and Collective[i]® Top 100 Global Sales Leaders (GSL100) list, which honors top sales professionals for their depth of experience, commitment to leadership development, and overall contribution to the sales profession.