Mark Fortier is founder of Fortier Public Relations, the largest PR firm for published authors, which also serves CEOs and thought leaders. His over 30 years of publicizing hundreds of bestselling books earned him the 2019 Porchlight Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Industry (previous winners include Tom Peters and Seth Godin). 260 books from his agency hit the bestseller list including 39 for 2024 so far. His bestsellers include the 4-million copy bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy, Lords of Finance which won the Pulitzer Prize, the Broadway-famous Hamilton biography, and 24 #1 bestsellers including Onward by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, Delivering Happiness by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, The Algebra of Wealth by Scott Galloway and the 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss.He has worked on books by 33 of the Thinkers50 list of the world’s leading business thinkers including Jim Collins, Clayton Christensen, Amy Edmondson, and Seth Godin, public officials including treasury secretary Robert Rubin, secretary of state Henry Kissinger, defense secretary Ash Carter, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, virtually every major book publisher, and the CEO, founder or chairman of Starbucks, Facebook, Google, GM, IBM, CVS, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, P&G, BP, AT&T, Best Buy, Citigroup, Unilever, Deloitte, Whole Foods, Prada, IDEO, Ritz-Carlton, PwC, Nokia, Aetna, Guardian, Reddit, The Container Store, Zappos, Gallup & 7-11.In his first few months in business, five of his books hit the bestseller list and appeared on the Today Show. His books have won awards from the Pulitzer to the Financial Times Business Book of the Year, which has been our client for 17 years.Corporate Clients include a16z, Accenture, Amazon, Bain, Booz Allen Hamilton, BCG, BCW, Cisco, Cognizant, Deloitte, Edelman, FT, Ford, Fortune, FranklinCovey, Gallup, Gensler, Google, Guardian Life, Harvard Business Review, Hubspot, IDEO, Infosys, Kleiner Perkins, KPMG, LinkedIn, Mayo Clinic, McKinsey, Mercer, Microsoft, Okta, PepsiCo, Prudential, Publicis Groupe, PwC, Schwab, Seventh Generation, SHRM, Skoll, Snowflake, Starbucks, strategy+business magazine, Stripe, Summit Series, Techstars, Twilio, WPP, Y&R and Zappos.Before founding Fortier Public Relations, Mark worked at Penguin, Columbia and Goldberg McDuffie Communications (their first employee to get promoted to partner and with the fastest promotion track).Mark is a graduate of Wesleyan. His work has been recognized by NPR, Newsday, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Publishers Weekly, PRWeek and several books about publishing.