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Mark McLaughlin |
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Naming and Directory Services
Mark McLaughlin is senior vice president,
general manager of the VeriSign Naming and Directory Services Business
Unit. The Naming and Directory Services Business Unit runs the Internet’s
.com and .net system and provides powerful, proven platforms to businesses
to support their mission-critical applications across disparate networks,
devices, and end points. Prior to joining the Naming and Directory Services
business unit, Mr. McLaughlin was vice president of Corporate Business
Development for VeriSign. In this role, Mr. McLaughlin lead VeriSign
corporate wide business-development efforts and was responsible for
strategic VeriSign agreements and relationships with IBM, Microsoft,
FDC, Inuit, eBay, Sun Microsystems and other leading technology companies.
Before that, Mr. McLaughlin was the general manager of the VeriSign
Payment Services Business Unit, leading the VeriSign Internet payment
business.
Prior to VeriSign, Mr. McLaughlin
was the vice president of sales and business development for Signio,
a leading Internet payment company, and was instrumental in the negotiation
and acquisition of Signio by VeriSign in 1999.
Prior to joining Signio, Mr. McLaughlin
was the vice president of business development for Gemplus, the world’s
leading smart-card company. In this role, Mr. McLaughlin was responsible
for Gemplus business development and legal affairs and negotiated and
closed many strategic alliances and business deals for the company both
in the Americas, Asia, and in Europe.
Prior to joining Gemplus, Mr. McLaughlin
was the general counsel of Caere Corporation, the word’s leading OCR
software company. Before joining Caere, Mr. McLaughlin practiced law
with Cooley Godward, a leading high technology law firm in Silicon Valley,
in the firm’s Information and Technology Licensing Group.
Mr. McLaughlin received his J.D.,
Magna cum Laude, from Seattle University School of Law and his B.S.
Degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Mr. McLaughlin
served as an attack helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army and earned an
Army Commendation Medal and Airborne Wings.
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