Mark Walsh is the head of a small venture capital firm focusing on interactive/internet technology and services.

He has been in the internet industry for over twenty 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 which he took public in early 1999.

Since 2001 he has been active in politics, serving as the first Chief Technology Advisor for the Democratic National Committee, then Internet head for the John Kerry for President Campaign, and then as founding CEO of Air America Radio…(he left long before its recent demise). He currently co-hosts a weekly talk show called “Left Jab” on XM Satellite Radio.

At his venture capital company, he has invested in a number of small technology companies and serves on a number of their boards. He is also active in a number of non-profits, serving or having served on the boards of the Philadelphia Orchestra, In2Books, and The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland amongst others.

He started his business career in television, as anchorman and News Director of a CBS-TV affiliate, and as New Business Development director for HBO in New York. He is a graduate of Union College (where he serves as a trustee) and Harvard Business School.