Mark Anderson is the CEO of the Strategic News Service® (SNS), www.stratnews.com. SNS was the first subscription-based newsletter on the Internet, and is read by Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Mark Hurd, and industry leaders and investors in computing and communications worldwide. He is the founding Chair of the Future in Review® (FiRe) Conference, which The Economist has labeled "the best technology conference in the world," as well as of SNS Project Inkwell, the first global consortium to address technology design changes for one-to-one computing in classrooms. He is the founder of two software companies, a hedge fund, and the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) Investors' Forum, Washington's premier technology investment conference.

Best known for his accurate forecasts of important technology market shifts, Mark was the first to predict the global liquidity collapse, or "credit crunch," during TV appearances in London on CNBC Europe and CNN World News in February, 2007. He is also the original designer of the CarryAlongPC format, now called the UMPC, which is projected by ABI Research to become the best-selling computer of all time. He also predicted Steve Jobs' return to Apple.

Mark’s ten-year, publicly graded accuracy rate is over 90%. His Congressional testimony on revising US broadband policy helped unlock the "River of Money" now fueling startups and media transitions in the US, and his well-known term "AORTA" (Always On RealTime Access) became the name of Europe's first broadband network.

Mark was in a meeting with 30 senators on the morning of 9.11; by October 2001, he had assembled the SNS "Project Intelligent Response" booklet and hand-delivered it to key members of the Senate and Administration in the face of the Anthrax attacks, providing the first structured effort by the global technology community to fight terrorism. His interest in theoretical physics led to a paper on Resonance Theory, submitted in 1979, which was the first to describe a version of String Theory as a Theory of Everything.

Mark is a member of the Merrill Lynch /BofA TechBrains Advisory Board, a Contributing Editor to The Industry Standard, and was selected by Fortune as one of "The 100 Smartest People We Know." When Michael Dell resumed control of his company, he hired Mark to review Dell operations and brief the management team. Mark provided the same service for HP’s largest division when Mark Hurd became CEO.

Mark regularly appears on CNN-TV, CNBC, National Public Radio, and "Wall Street Review," and in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the New York Times. He recently spoke throughout China as a guest of the US Embassy, and is a frequently sought speaker around the world.

Mark is the founder and chair of two nonprofit 501(c)3 corporations: The Foresight Foundation, dedicated to harnessing existing technology to create dramatic improvement in the human condition, and Orca Relief Citizens' Alliance, created to reduce resident killer whale mortality rates in the Puget Sound.

Mark is a frequent speaker at corporate meetings around the world, and provides top-level strategic reviews for management teams. Clients include the world's top software, computer, and telecoms companies: Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Symantec, Nokia, T-Mobile, Warburg Pincus, SVB Financial Group, and others. For more information, or to arrange a speech or strategic review, contact sam@stratnews.com.