Mark Walsh

Mr. Walsh is CEO of GeniusRocket (www.geniusrocket.com), an Internet advertising platform using the power of the web to bring together technology and creativity for advertisers. Mr. Walsh is also head of Ruxton Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on interactive/Internet technology and services startup companies and serves on a number of their boards. He has been a leader in the Internet industry for over twenty-five years, heading up consumer Internet efforts for GE, running AOL's Internet and business-to-business efforts, and as CEO of VerticalNet, a business-to-business Internet company that he took public in early 1999. Mr. Walsh has been active in politics, serving as the first Chief Technology Advisor for the Democratic National Committee,Internet head for the John Kerry for President Campaign, as founding CEO of Air America Radio and currently co-hosts a weekly talk show called "Left Jab" on XM Satellite Radio. Mr. Walsh is also active in the non-profit community including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, In2Books and is a senior fellow at The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland.