Mark Fasciano, Chairman/Director

Mark started Karma411, a social networking site that raises money for nonprofits, with his business partner John Murcott in 2007. Mark brings together his expertise in Web 2.0 technology with his entrepreneurial experience as founder and CEO of FatWire Software for 10 years to help Karma411 members "connect to a cause". He was the Keynote Speaker at the Long Island Venture Capital Alliance Forum in 2007 to describe his experience funding Karma411.

Mark started FatWire Software in 1996 and grew the company to 140 employees in 9 countries around the world with $28 million in sales. He won customers such as Ford Motor Company and GM, JP Morgan Chase, Best Buy, and the New York Times. He originally helped build the early versions of FatWire's first Content Management system, but as CEO has focused primarily on the strategic business, including raising $32 million in venture capital. In 2003, Mark led the acquisition of the Content Management (Open Market) business from Divine.

Articles about Mark and his work have been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Long Island Business News, USA Today, as well as a number of software trade magazines. In 2000, he won Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award. He sits on the board of LISTNet, and is a member of the Long Island chapter of YPO.

Mark graduated from Cornell University with degrees in English and Computer Science, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. His doctoral thesis from the AI Lab at Chicago described a system for planning and acting in real-time, uncertain worlds.