Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service

Mark is the CEO of Strategic News Service, the first subscription-based newsletter on the Internet, read by Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Steve Jobs, and industry leaders and investors in computing and communications worldwide. He is also the Founding Chair of the Future in Review® (FiRe) Conference, which The Economist has labeled “the best technology conference in the world,” as well as of SNS Project Inkwell, the first global consortium to address technology design changes for 1:1 computing in classrooms. Mark is the founder of two software companies, a hedge fund, and the Washington Technology Industry Association “Fast Pitch” investment forum, Washington’s premier technology investment conference. Called “the high-tech industry’s most accurate prognosticator” by Strategy+Business Editor Art Kleiner, Mark was the first to call the global liquidity collapse on TV on CNBC Europe in March 2007. His 1997 predicted success of the “CarryPC” format is now represented in Netbook and iPad market dominance, and his 20-year, publicly graded accuracy rate is over 90%. Mark is a member of the advisory boards for Merrill Lynch TechBrains, the UCSD Calit2 Laboratory, OVP Venture Partners, Crowd Trust, and Africa’s new mPedigree network. He was selected by Fortune as one of the “100 Smartest People We Know,” and he regularly appears on global television, radio and in print media. Mark is a frequent speaker at corporate meetings and conferences, and provides top-level strategic reviews for management teams, including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Symantec, Nokia, T-Mobile, Warburg Pincus, and the Pentagon. He is the Founder and Chair of two non-profits, the Foresight Foundation (dedicated to harnessing existing technology to create dramatic improvement in the human condition) and Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance (created to reduce resident killer-whale mortality rates in the Puget Sound). Mark created Resonance Theory, submitted to Physical Review in 1980, providing the first foundation in physics for String Theory as a Theory of Everything. His “Multiple Input” Genetics theory has brought Darwin’s work into the 21st century. Mark holds two patents, has published original classical piano music, and is the author of a poetry book.