Mark is a distinguished senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a contributing editor at the City Journal, a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick school of engineering, and co-founding partner in Montrose Lane, an energy fund. He writes frequently for numerous publications (Wall Street Journal, Real Clear, Forbes TechCrunch, etc.). Mark was previously a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and his online PragerU videos on energy have been viewed over 10 million times. He is author of the book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s, (2021), which rose to #1 in Amazon’s Business Planning & Forecasting category. Previous books include Digital Cathedrals: The Information Infrastructure Era, (2020), Work In The Age Of Robots (2018), and (with Peter Huber) The Bottomless Well, (2005), about which Bill Gates said, “This is the only book I’ve ever seen that really explains energy.” He served as chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies helping take it through a 2007 IPO. Earlier Mark served in the White House Science Office under President Reagan, and prior to that was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics, earning several patents, at Bell Northern Research (Canada’s Bell Labs) and the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center. He holds a BSc Honours in physics from Queen’s University, Canada.
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