Mark Harrington
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Mark Harrington was born in Portland, Maine. A Dorothy M. Kelly and Melborne Wesley Cummings Scholar, he earned a marketing degree from the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. In 1999, Harrington was a founding employee of Half.com, developing the company's textbook business [1], which quickly grew into the largest textbook marketplace in the United States. Half.com was bought by eBay in 2000 for over $350 million.
After the Half.com acquisition, Harrington stayed on with eBay for four years, running Retention and Direct Marketing. In late 2004 he co-founded Fight On State [2], an expansion of PSU Playbook, which he co-founded with Nirav Dalal in 1996. Fight On State merged with Scout.com, and is now a leading Fox Sports web property.
Fight On State is now the largest Penn State football site on the Internet with upwards of 5 million page views per month.
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Harrington is currently Senior Vice President of Marketing [3] for Ecount, a strategic partner of Visa. He also developed and manages Partnership Quality for the company's portfolio of 900 corporate clients, including over a third of the Fortune 100.
Harrington has served as an advisor for a variety of charitable events and organizations, including Penn State's Lift For Life, Penn's Civilians, Blue-White Scholarship and The BEST Leadership Council [4].
He currently lives in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
