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Board of Directors

Senior Advisory Board
Mark C. Bisnow
Bisnow on Business

Mark Bisnow has a broad background in business, politics, law, and media. He hosts a two-hour morning interview show on the local NBC/FOX affiliate, WMET 1160, which features prominent guests from politics, business, and media. He publishes a growing series of electronic interview-oriented newsletters, including General Counsel Weekly, Real Estate Weekly, CIO Weekly, and (with the Northern Virginia Technology Council) Entrepreneur Weekly. He also writes a weekly personality column for the Washington Business Journal, and occasional personality column for Federal Computer Week.

Previously he served as Senior Vice President of webMethods, Inc., heading both worldwide marketing and government business; as Chief of Staff of MicroStrategy, Inc., in which role he headed business development and communications. As a hobby from 1997 to 2003, he created a series for WTOP and other Washington-area radio stations called "Bisnow on Business," in the course of which he interviewed nearly 500 business leaders across the region and produced radio spots explaining their activities in non-technical language.

Before he entered the high tech world, he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Atlantic Coast Airlines; Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole; Communications Director of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee; Press Secretary to 1980 presidential candidate John B. Anderson; and (in the late 1970s) Legislative Assistant to Senator John Heinz. He has also been a practicing attorney at Latham & Watkins.

His involvement in civic and philanthropic activities includes service as Chairman of the Washington Business Hall of Fame; Chairman of the American Heart Association's Washington area dinner; Chairman of the NVTC e-Business Committee; Chairman of the Business Partnership Advisory Committee of George Washington University; Vice Chairman of the Potomac Officers Club; a Trustee of the National Building Museum; and a Board member of Junior Achievement, the Tower Club, and the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation. He has also served as Chairman of the Government Advisory Board of webMethods, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Cyveillance, Inc.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mr. Bisnow received his BA and MA from Stanford University and JD from Harvard Law School, and was a Winston Churchill Fellow in International Relations at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. He is the author of two books on politics and numerous articles. He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and other foreign policy organizations. He lives with his wife and children in Washington, D.C.