Mark Coker is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur based in Los Gatos, California. In 2008 he founded Smashwords, the world's leading ebook publishing platform for indie authors. Prior to Smashwords, he was founder and president of BestCalls.com (1998-2003), a publisher of earnings conference call schedules for individual investors which was acquired in 2003 by Shareholder(later acquired and operated by the Nasdaq Stock Exchange). He's also the former founder and president of Dovetail Public Relations, an award-winning strategic communications consultancy that operated between the years of 1993 and 2008. Mark earned his B.S. degree in marketing from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley class in 1988.

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