Mark Walsh
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Mark Walsh is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. Walsh is the managing partner of Ruxton Ventures, LLC, a private equity and investment firm he founded in early 2001. He is also a senior executive fellow at the University of Maryland's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. His former jobs include CEO of VerticalNet, America Online executive, and president of GEnie.
He is active in liberal politics; he was a founder and the former CEO of Air America Radio and an advisor to the Democratic National Committee.
He graduated from Union College in 1976 and is now a trustee of that college. Most significantly, Walsh had been lead singer for the "Wasted Union Blues Band" that entertained a few individuals in 1972-73. He got his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1980. His first job was as a news anchor for a CBS affiliate in West Virginia.
Walsh is currently heard on XM Satellite Radio's Left Jab, a weekly political radio show.
Mark Walsh has appeared on such shows as Hardball with Chris Matthews.
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