Van de Mark

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Gender	Male
Occupation	Speaker/Writer/Anchor
Location	United States
Introduction	For twenty years Donald Van de Mark was a national television news correspondent and anchor with CNBC and CNN. Donald was instrumental in the launch of both CNBC and CNN’s financial channel, CNNfn and was co-anchor of CNN’s MoneyWeek. On August 31st, 1998 Van de Mark broke the story of Long Term Capital Management’s near collapse. From 2000-2003, Van de Mark wrote and anchored Great Entrepreneurs and Great Leaders, television series which aired on public broadcasting stations. Van de Mark spent 1993-94 working with the feared and revered media and Internet mogul, Barry Diller. Van de Mark managed media and investor relations for QVC, Inc., as Diller made two widely covered takeover attempts: a $10 billion run at Paramount Communications and a scuttled $6.4 billion merger with CBS Inc. Van de Mark graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in 1981 and currently lives in Sonoma, California where he is writing a book; Personality Traits of the Best Human Beings. Van de Mark also sells real estate. In 2006 and 2007, Van de Mark and two colleagues were among the top ten selling teams among 3600 agents. Working alone in 2008 Van de Mark was among the top hundred.
Interests	Politics, Finance, Psychology, Philosophy, Success, Animals of all kinds, hiking, biking... anything outdoors.
Favorite Movies	Forrest Gump, Wizard of Oz, The Sand Pebbles, American Beauty, The Godfather
Favorite Music	U2, Annie Lenox