Management Team: Mark Evans
Mark Evans is a founding Partner and Managing Director at Ionic Media . Previously, he was the General Manager of the US search business of Overture Services, with P&L responsibility at the largest pay for performance search provider on the Internet.
He began his tenure with Overture heading the advertiser product management , which designed features and functionality of the online tools used by Overture's tens of thousands of advertisers, as well as internal tools used by Overture's customer service and editorial teams. He was promoted to also lead advertiser marketing, with responsibility for growing the base of advertisers.
Prior to Overture, Mark was a partner with CCI, a firm that brought together CEOs and Presidents of large high-tech and industrial companies and that also helped small high-tech companies grow from ideas into small, successful companies.
Previously, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Mark has an MBA from the Wharton School, and a BA from UC Berkeley.
Mark’s Top 10 Favorite Books and Sites
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Fark.com (site)
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Lord of the Rings,
by J.R.R. Tolkien (books and movies)
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Neuromancer
by William Gibson
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Chronos
(movie)
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A
Confederacy of Dunces,
by John Kennedy Toole
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Engines
of Creation,
by K. Eric Drexler
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The
Leopard [Il Gattopardo],
by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Stranger
in a Strange Land,
by Robert Heinlein
Friends
in High Places: The
Bechtel Story: The Most Secret Corporation and how It Engineered the
World,
by Laton McCartney (book)
Waiting For Guffman
