Mark L. Walker Email & Phone Number

Bristol, Ct, Us

Mark has been instrumental in driving innovation across ESPN and overseeing ESPN BET, which will grow ESPN’s revenue over a ten-year period, in partnership with PENN Entertainment. Mark continues to lead the ESPN Center of Excellence for Sports Business, where he spearheads initiatives that drive new and creative ways to engage our fans. Mark’s work with ESPN EDGE—a collaboration with other tech leaders focused on enhancing sports experiences—led to several successful initiatives such as Big City Greens and Toy Story Funday Football, partnerships with Electronic Arts, Accenture, Microsoft, and Verizon.

Bristol, Ct, Us

• Divsional head of major franchises, reporting directly to the Chairman of Consumer Products and Interactive, including Star Wars, Cars, Princess, Mickey Mouse, Avengers, etc. across licensing, retail marketing, Disney Store, interactive games, interactive media and worldwide publishing.• Developed and drove execution of franchise strategy, marketing, and planning for the industry-leading consumer products and interactive media business.• Implemented segment-wide plans aimed at expanding audiences, identifying white-space opportunities, and building lifelong relationships between our fans and franchises.• Actively collaborated with the marketing organizations within each line of business, as well as with content partners across the company and corporate brand management in order to drive a holistic and aligned franchise strategy for the division.• Led a team of data scientists and analysts focused on accelerating and improving divisional decision-making, enriching advertising offerings, optimizing internal business processes, increasing operational efficiency, driving new revenues and gaining competitive business insights.

Led all operations, content, product management, social video development and production, social media, marketing and programming for the Disney, Disney Family, Star Wars and Babble networks of digital experiences, mobile web and native applications.2016: Webby Awards, Winner, Apps, Entertainment: Star Wars App2016: Webby Awards, Honoree, Virtual Reality: Star Wars App2016: Webby Awards, Nominee, Social, Family & Parenting: Disney Social2016: Best Use of Vine, Shorty Awards: Disney Vine2015: Best Apps of 2015, Google Play: Star Wars app2015: Best Campaign, Vuforia Vision Awards: Star Wars app2014: Best App for Teaching and Learning, American Association of School Librarians: Disney Animated2014: British Academy Awards (BAFTA) – Interactive: Adapted – Disney Animated

Led all operations, content, product management, short-form video series development and production, engineering, business development, social media, marketing and programming for the Disney.com network of digital experiences, mobile web and native applications.2012 People's Voice Webby Award: Games2013 People's Voice Webby Award: Movie & Film2013 Apple Editor's Choice: Disney Animated2013: the guardian "The Best 50 Apps of 2013"​: Disney Animated2013: Interactive Media Awards, "Best in Class - Kids"​: Disney.com and Disneyjunior.com2013: Apple Inc., "Best iPad App of the Year"​: Disney Animated2013: Mashable.com, #1 in "11 Best iPads Apps of the Year"​: Disney Animated2013: Futurebook Innovation Awards, "Best Adult Digital Book": Disney Animated

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Headed the Yahoo! News and Information properties in the North American region. Yahoo! News is the number one news and information site in the country, with more than 59 million monthly unique readers. Drove the transformation of Yahoo! News from an undifferentiated wire aggregation platform to a leading source of original reporting and highly-monetized programming, with strong social media activation.- #1 online for 2010 Midterm Elections coverage.- Launched a DC bureau to produce original political reporting, including the most-streamed political video show on the Web, The Fast Fix with Chris Cilizza.- Developed and launched the #1 video series on the Web, Who Knew? in conjunction with Reveille.- Led the development and integration of the Yahoo! News blogs, with more than 550 million monthly page views.- Drove the Yahoo! News properties to record levels of revenue, user engagement and traffic.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

A centralized function within the Yahoo! North American Audience Group, responsible for leading the business development teams in Music, Movies, TV, Lifestyles and Sports and advising Yahoo! verticals on music-related strategic issues, managing content deals and transactions, and implementing content-related strategies.

Led an investment and consulting firm focused on media-oriented business capable of leveraging digital distribution infrastructure. Clients included General Growth Properties, INgrooves, Haute Face and Pump17. Successfully sourced strategic relationships with key financial, marketing and distribution partners, including Shelter Capital, PepsiCo, World Poker Tour, EMI, SonyBMG, Virgin Records, ESPN, eLabs, Nokia, T-Mobile UK, OD2, Microsoft, Napster, Real Networks, JVC and others.

London, Gb

Head of business and legal policies and practices for BMG's international companies in more than 48 countries.

Responsible for all business development, corporate strategy and consummated all content and asset acquisitions for these venture capital-funded entertainment companies.

Staff lawyer responsible for corporate acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions.

Jd, Law

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Mechanical Engineering