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Mark Walsh created Ruxton Ventures, LLC, a seed venture capital fund, in 2002. From late 2015 through 2017, he served in the Obama administration as head of the Office of Investment and Innovation for the U.S. Small Business Administration. Mark previously was the executive chair of Homesnap.com, a Revolution Ventures investment.
He was president of GEnie, General Electric’s online service, and a senior vice president and corporate officer of AOL. While at AOL, he created and ran AOL Enterprise, its business-to-business division.
Mr. Walsh was also CEO of VerticalNet, a business-to-business portal provider, and co-founder and CEO of GeniusRocket, a provider of crowd-sourced advertising media.
Mark graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in American Studies from Union College. He received an MBA from Harvard.
Mr. Walsh served on the Union College board of trustees from 2000 to 2016, including as its chair from 2011 to 2015.
