Biography

Mark Anderson is CEO of Strategic News Service (SNS) and publisher of the weekly SNS Global Report on technology and the global economy (www.stratnews.com), read by Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Vint Cerf, Michael Dell, Paul Allen, Craig Venter, Jeff Bezos, Bill Janeway, Paul Jacobs, Leroy Hood, and technology executives and investors worldwide. He is CEO of SNS Conference Corp. and chairman of the Future in Review (FiRe) conference (www.futureinreview.com) – now in its 14th year – which the Economist has named “the best technology conference in the world.”Mark’s work includes the creation of INVNT/IP (Inventing Nations vs. Nation-sponsored Theft of IP, www.invntip.com), a global consortium of corporations and government agencies; SNS Project Inkwell (www.projectinkwell.org), the first global consortium to bring vendors, educators, and students together to accelerate the deployment of appropriate technology into K-12 schools; SNS Interactive News (www.snsinews.com), using patented processes to bring daily interactive communications “About Leaders, For Leaders” worldwide; a new Global Rescue System (GRS) for victims of human trafficking, in concert with Julia Ormond’s ASSET program; Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance (ORCA: www.orcarelief.org), the sole nonprofit organization working to reduce killer whale mortality rates; and Nutritional Microanalysis, a new field of medical research and practice aimed at connecting biochemical descriptions of food with health. The subscription-based SNS FiReFilms initiative (www.firefilms.net) was created in 2009 to identify, support, and promote potentially world-changing documentary films in which technology improves the human condition. SNS FiReBooks publishes books on how technology drives the global economy.