Mark Anderson is the CEO of the Strategic News Service (R) (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 also founding chair of the Future in Review (R) (FiRe) Conference, which The Economist has labeled "the best technology conference in the world." He is the founding chair 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 Software Alliance (WSA) Investors' Forum, Washington's premier software investment conference.

Best known for his accurate forecasts of important technology market shifts, Mark has correctly predicted Steve Jobs' return to Apple, the advent of a series of major PC market shifts and re-designs (including the CheapPC, the CarryAlongPC, and the Inkwell PC), and a decade of yen/dollar ratios. His 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 net. Mark was in a meeting with 30 senators on the morning of 9.11; by October 2001, he had assembled an SNS "Project Intelligent Response" booklet and hand-delivered it to key members of the Senate and Administration, providing the first structured effort by the 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 String Theory. A member of the Merrill Lynch TechBrains Advisory Board, Mark is often retained by CEOs of leading technology firms to provide strategic advice, a service he also provides for foreign and domestic national political leaders. He is the author of occasional columns for Fortune and BusinessWeek magazines, and 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 is a Contributing Editor to the Industry Standard. 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 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, and others. He can be reached at sns@tapsns.com.