Mark Bisnow has a broad background in business, politics, law, and media. He has served as head of worldwide marketing and government sector business for webMethods; chief of staff and head of communications and business development for MicroStrategy; SVP, general counsel, and secretary of Atlantic Coast Airlines; and Assistant to the CEO of USAir. In the 1980s, Bisnow served as Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, an attorney at Latham & Watkins, and Communications Director of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Previously Bisnow was Press Secretary to 1980 presidential candidate John B. Anderson, and as Legislative Assistant to Senator John Heinz.

Bisnow has also been active in civic and philanthropic activities. He has served as Chairman of the Washington Business Hall of Fame (the annual dinner created by Washingtonian Magazine and the Washington Board of Trade for the benefit of Junior Achievement); Chairman of the American Heart Association's annual Washington area dinner; Chairman of the Northern Virginia Technology Council's e-Business Committee; Chairman of the Business Partnership Advisory Committee of George Washington University; Vice Chairman of the Potomac Officers Club; a Trustee of the National Building Museum; a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation; a member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of the National Capital Region; a member of the Advisory Board of Governors of the Tower Club of Tysons Corner, Va.; Chairman of the Advisory Board of Cyveillance, Inc.; and Chairman of the Government Advisory Board of webMethods, Inc.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bisnow received his BA and MA from Stanford University and JD from Harvard Law School, and was a Churchill Fellow in International Relations at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Bisnow is the author of two books on politics (Diary of a Dark Horse: The 1980 Anderson Presidential Campaign, 1983, and In the Shadow of the Dome: Chronicles of a Capitol Hill Aide, 1990) and numerous articles, and has served as a consulting producer to the McLaughlin Group TV show. He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and other foreign policy organizations.