Mark V.B. Partridge, JD, is an internationally recognized expert on trademark, copyright and Internet law. As a member and resource speaker for Vistage, the world's largest CEO membership organization, Mark speaks the language of business, sharing critical concepts and ideas in clear and direct terms. His mission as a speaker is to help business leaders transform intellectual capital - brands, content, ideas, and innovation - into business success.

Mark has over 25 years of experience helping major corporations, entrepreneurs and creative professionals protect brands, content, domain names, data and other forms of intellectual capital. Representative clients include MasterCard, Nabisco, Nike, Pepsico, Sun Microsystems and Abbott Laboratories.

A graduate of Harvard Law School, he is past president of the Lawyers Club of Chicago, a Fellow and past board member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, an adjunct professor at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, and a partner at Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP, a boutique law firm dedicated to helping businesses defend their brands.

In 1998, he was selected by the United Nation's World Intellectual Property Organization as an expert on Internet domain names. In 2006, he was elected as the American Bar Association's representative to ICANN, the governing body for internet domain names.

He is recognized in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers as one of the preeminent trademark attorneys in the world and in Chicago Magazine as an Illinois "Super Lawyer" in intellectual property.

The author of numerous articles and the book Guiding Rights: Trademarks, Copyright and the Internet (2003), he is a frequent speaker on intellectual property issues. In 2007, he was elected president of the National Speakers Association Illinois Chapter. As a featured speaker, he has appeared before business and professional audiences in thirteen states, and in Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Russia.