Mark Chasan is a lawyer, merchant banker and entrepreneur.[1] In 1995, Chasan founded Emusic, and as Chairman and CEO of Emusic[2] created the world’s first online digital music distribution and retailing company and a leading online music and entertainment superstore.[3] In February 1999, Emusic merged with Goodnoise/Emusic.com, Inc. and went public (NASDAQ: EMUS).[4] Also, in 1995, Chasan formed Webcentral, one of the first web development, hosting and co-location facilities in the US and hosted such customers as Caltrans, ReMax and AudioNet/Broadcast.com. Webcentral was acquired by Interworld Communications in 1997.
Chasan is currently the Chairman and CEO of Transformative Capital, Inc., a firm focused on financing sustainable and clean-tech businesses. Chasan has been instrumental in creating new financial models for a process driven approach to liquidity and value creation utilizing a private-to-public strategy.[5]