Mark Coker
Chief Strategy Officer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Coker is a veteran entrepreneur and strategic leader in digital publishing and tech communications, currently serving as Chief Strategy Officer of Draft2Digital after merging his longstanding indie-publishing platform Smashwords into the company. He founded Smashwords in 2008 and previously launched BestCalls.com in 1997, a service whose push for transparency helped catalyze the SEC's Regulation FD. Across a career that began in PR and early email/communications technology, he has led companies through IPOs and acquisitions, advised startups, and angel invested in more than a dozen firms that later exited or continue operating. A prolific writer and commentator on publishing and technology, he has contributed to VentureBeat, The Huffington Post, and Publisher’s Weekly. Less obvious: his roots in hands-on tech PR and a garage startup taught him growth-by-communication tactics that repeatedly scaled product-led companies into market leaders. He combines operator experience, investor insight, and a storyteller’s sensibility to help founders navigate strategy, distribution, and media.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
BS Marketing, BS Marketing at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Github Skills (120)
theos10
error-log10
act9
letsencrypt8
python8
certbot8
perl8
encrypt8
ssl-certificate8
rsyslog8
makefile8
ruby7
caddyserver7
alpine-linux7
acme7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
r4sas/HTML-Script-Integrity
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 commits in 3 days
javascriptintegritybashfile-integritybash-script
markcoker/tpg-bruteforce
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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