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. Harrington has been instrumental in some of the most significant recent business transactions in the Philadelphia region.
[edit] Milestones
In 2007, Harrington played a leading role in the acquisition of Ecount [1] by Citigroup's Corporate and Investment Banking division, managing key elements of both the due diligence and implementation processes. The transaction instantly made Citigroup a leading corporate prepaid provider, a market they had limited previous experience in.
In 1999, Harrington was a founding employee of Half.com which was acquired by eBay in 2000 for over $350 million. During his tenure he launched and developed the company's textbook business [2], which quickly grew into the largest textbook marketplace in the United States and a leading category on eBay. After the Half.com acquisition, Harrington stayed on with eBay for four years, running Retention and Direct Marketing.
In 1996, he co-founded PSU Playbook which later merged to become Fight On State [3], which is currently the largest media property (web and print) covering Penn State athletics. In 2004 Fight On State joined Scout.com and is now a leading Fox Sports web property.
Previously, he has also particpated in acquisitions with Harper Collins, Prentice Hall and Longman Publishers.
[edit] Currently
Harrington is currently Senior Vice President of Marketing [4] for Ecount, a strategic partner of Visa. Aside from managing marketing he also devloped Strategic Quality for the company's portfolio of 1,200 corporate clients, including over a third of the Fortune 100, like Toyota, General Electric, America Online and Sprint.
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 [5].
He currently lives in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
