Interview with Mark Britton
Posted on: November 12, 2009
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Mark Britton
Mark is the founder, CEO and president of Avvo. Mark is a 17-year lawyer with deep experience in the legal and e-commerce industries. View Mark’s Avvo Profile.
Prior to founding Avvo, Mark was the executive vice president of Worldwide Corporate Affairs of InterActiveCorp Travel (IACT) and Expedia, Inc. In this position, Mark oversaw all finance, strategy, corporate development, legal, human resources and government relations functions for the IACT companies, including Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Classic Custom Vacations and Interval International.
Before Expedia’s acquisition by InterActiveCorp, Mark was Expedia’s senior vice president, general counsel and secretary and in this role built Expedia’s legal and government relations teams from scratch. Prior to joining Expedia, Mark was an attorney and equity partner-elect of the law firm Preston, Gates & Ellis LLP (now K&L Gates). Mark also has worked as an attorney and clerk for small and medium-sized law firms and served as senior counsel to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In 2007, Mark was named one of Seattle’s “Top 25 Innovators” by Seattle Business Magazine. Mark is also a frequent commentator on financial, legal and other business issues, regularly appearing on programs such as ABC’s Good Morning America, Fox Business’ “America’s Nightly Scoreboard,” CNN Money and Dow Jones MarketWatch.
Mark received his law degree from George Washington University. He also holds a degree in Finance from Gonzaga University and has served as an adjunct professor of Finance for Gonzaga in Florence, Italy.