Mark Perlman handles a variety of strategic communications functions for The Weiser Group's technology and auction exchange clients. Mark specializes in the execution of media relations and investor relations programs, ranging in scope from scripting and directing corporate video profiles and conference calls to writing earnings releases and planning investor conferences.

Mark joined the firm from Lake Forest College, a small, national liberal arts institution in northern Illinois. As Director of Public Relations there, he developed and implemented the College's strategic public relations program, as well as crafted its crisis communication plan.

Mark is a graduate of Indiana University, where he closely studied and worked with Robert Montgomery Knight on the necessity of enthusiasm, commitment and hard work. Mark put those lessons to use when he entered the workforce as a business correspondent for Lerner Newspapers in Chicago and later at the Chicago Sun-Times.

A native of Chicago, Mark is an active volunteer, which has included serving on the Mt. Sinai Hospital Institute Council and as a media specialist for Chicago '96