Mark P. Mills is an senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute, and founder and CEO of the Digital Power Group, a tech-centric capital advisory group. He was formerly the co-founder and chief tech strategist for Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund. He co-founded and served as Chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies helping take it public in a 2007 IPO. Mark is a member of the Advisory Council of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Marshall Institute.

He writes the Energy Intelligence column for Forbes and is co-author with Peter Huber of the book, "The Bottomless Well" (Basic Books 2005) which rose to #1 in Amazon science. He has been published in various popular publications including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Magazine. He has appeared on many TV shows including CNN, Fox News, CNBC, PBS, NBC and ABC, and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Mark was earlier a technology advisor for Banc of America Securities, and a co-author of a successful energy-tech investment newsletter, the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report, published by Forbes and the Gilder Group. Mark has testified before the U.S. Congress and briefed many state public service commissions and state legislators. Mark served in the White House Science Office under President Reagan. Early in his career he was an experimental physicist and development engineer in the fields of integrated circuits and microprocessors and worked at Bell Northern Research (NORTEL) in fiber optics, defense and solid-state devices, fields in which he holds several patents. Mark holds a degree in physics from Queen's University, Canada.

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Business and Economy

A Power Portfolio Forbes.com, 04-11-05

New, Pivotal Tech Revolution in the Offing? The San Diego Union-Tribune, 05-12-12

Will Exxon Get Googled? The American Spectator, 11-01-08

Crowdsourcing Innovation In New York City: Cornell v Stanford Forbes.com, 12-13-11

Buckeye Oil Billions Will Unleash an Ohio Manufacturing Tech Boom Forbes.com, 09-26-11

Liberating the Energy Economy: What Washington Must Do Power & Growth Initiative Report, September 2012

The International Energy Agency Catches Up With America's Oil Producers Forbes.com, 11-13-12

Want More Jobs? Unleash Small Businesses, Venture Capital and Technology Forbes.com, 01-28-11

WikiLeaks Fallout is Bullish for Boeing, Airbus and United-Continental Forbes.com, 12-15-10

Apps Lead the Way to the Next Innovation Hypercycle Forbes.com, 12-10-12

Econ101 Comes to the U.S. Department of Energy: Exporting LNG is Good Forbes.com, 12-06-12

California Could Be the Next Shale Boom State Wall Street Journal, 01-16-13

Big Data And Microseismic Imaging Will Accelerate The Smart Drilling Oil and Gas Revolution Forbes.com, 05-08-13

We Need a 21st Century Energy Policy RealClearEnergy, 05-24-13

Unleash the Energy-Export Revolution National Review Online, 06-03-13

California

Energy Innovation Could Rescue California The San Diego Union-Tribune, 11-15-12

California Could Be the Next Shale Boom State Wall Street Journal, 01-16-13

Crime

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Culture and Society

The Coming Tech-led Boom Wall Street Journal, 01-30-12

C.P. Snow Was Wrong Forbes.com, 11-06-09

Drugs

With the Tricorder X PRIZE Qualcomm Launches the New Era of Metadata Medicine Forbes.com, 01-18-12

Economic Development

Got a Computer? More Power to You. Wall Street Journal, 09-07-00

Oil, Oil, Everywhere . . . Wall Street Journal, 01-27-05

Heavy Iron = Energy Independence The New York Sun, 04-07-05

Jobs In a Ripple-Out Economy Come From Oil, Gas, Coal, and Then the Cloud 10/24/2012 Forbes.com, 10-24-12

The International Energy Agency Catches Up With America's Oil Producers Forbes.com, 11-13-12

Media Matters Says Conservatives Rubber Stamp the Romney Energy Plan Forbes.com, 08-25-12

Apps Lead the Way to the Next Innovation Hypercycle Forbes.com, 12-10-12

California Could Be the Next Shale Boom State Wall Street Journal, 01-16-13

Big Data And Microseismic Imaging Will Accelerate The Smart Drilling Oil and Gas Revolution Forbes.com, 05-08-13

Matthew Hennessey and Mark Mills discuss Mills's new report, The Case for Exports: America's Hydrocarbon Industry Can revive the Economy and Eliminate the Trade Deficit Podcast: Interview, May 21, 2013

We Need a 21st Century Energy Policy RealClearEnergy, 05-24-13

Unleash the Energy-Export Revolution National Review Online, 06-03-13

Energy

Energy Here and Now: New York’s Independent Future Event Transcript, September 2003

New York’s Energy Future: Looking Bright or Headed for a Blackout? Event Transcript, June 2003

Can Terrorists Turn Out Gotham’s Lights? City Journal, Autumn 2004

Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power City Journal, Winter 2005

The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, The Virtue of Waste and Why We Will Never Run Out Of Energy Book, 2005

The Art of Energy Slate, 02-01-05

Brawn & Brains Forbes.com, 09-15-03

Buy (Some) Utilities Forbes.com, 02-17-03

How Non-Green Cities Are Rebuilding the American Forests Los Angeles Times, 12-29-99

Wow, Even Tom Friedman Wants to Drill Baby Drill? Forbes.com, 02-27-12

The Relentless Pursuit of Magical Energy Forbes.com, 10-28-11

Unleashing the North American Energy Colossus: Hydrocarbons Can Fuel Growth and Prosperity Power & Growth Initiative Report, July 2012

Mark Mills discusses his new report for The Center for Energy Policy and the Environment, "Unleashing the North American Energy Colossus: Hydrocarbons Can Fuel Growth and Prosperity" Podcast: Interview, July 5, 2012

Testimony by Mark Mills on The American Energy Initiative Testimony, September 2012

Liberating the Energy Economy: What Washington Must Do Power & Growth Initiative Report, September 2012

Oil, Gas, and Coal Can Prime the Jobs Pump: Which States Will Benefit? Issues 2012, October 2012

The Efficacy Of Presidential Energy Policy Forbes.com, 04-07-09

Copenhagen's Future Schlock Forbes.com, 12-18-09

Post Fukushima-- Burn More Coal and Oil, and Hire More Engineers Not Regulators Forbes.com, 03-20-11

Jobs In a Ripple-Out Economy Come From Oil, Gas, Coal, and Then the Cloud 10/24/2012 Forbes.com, 10-24-12

Presidents CAN Lower Gasoline Prices Forbes.com, 10-17-12

Bravo New York Times For Discovering Reality in ‘Power, Pollution and The Internet’ Forbes.com, 09-25-12

The International Energy Agency Catches Up With America's Oil Producers Forbes.com, 11-13-12

Media Matters Says Conservatives Rubber Stamp the Romney Energy Plan Forbes.com, 08-25-12

Romney Chooses a Tech-Centric Energy Plan to Jumpstart Jobs and Economic Growth Forbes.com, 08-23-12

Look to Software Not Hardware to Fix India's Grid Forbes.com, 08-01-12

Energy Innovation Could Rescue California The San Diego Union-Tribune, 11-15-12

U.S. Can Become An Energy Export Nation , 07-25-12

Econ101 Comes to the U.S. Department of Energy: Exporting LNG is Good Forbes.com, 12-06-12

Information Technology Has Created a New Electric Demand Paradigm Forbes.com, 01-08-13

Fracknation: An Elegant Antidote to Media Misinformation National Review Online, 01-07-13

California Could Be the Next Shale Boom State Wall Street Journal, 01-16-13

Big Data And Microseismic Imaging Will Accelerate The Smart Drilling Oil and Gas Revolution Forbes.com, 05-08-13

The Case for Exports: America's Hydrocarbon Industry Can Revive the Economy and Eliminate the Trade Deficit Power & Growth Initiative Report, May 2013

Matthew Hennessey and Mark Mills discuss Mills's new report, The Case for Exports: America's Hydrocarbon Industry Can revive the Economy and Eliminate the Trade Deficit Podcast: Interview, May 21, 2013

We Need a 21st Century Energy Policy RealClearEnergy, 05-24-13

Unleash the Energy-Export Revolution National Review Online, 06-03-13

Environment

Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power City Journal, Winter 2005

How Cities Green the Planet City Journal, Winter 2000

Getting Over Oil Commentary, 09-15-05

Wow, Even Tom Friedman Wants to Drill Baby Drill? Forbes.com, 02-27-12

Mark Mills discusses his new report for The Center for Energy Policy and the Environment, "Unleashing the North American Energy Colossus: Hydrocarbons Can Fuel Growth and Prosperity" Podcast: Interview, July 5, 2012

Oil, Gas, and Coal Can Prime the Jobs Pump: Which States Will Benefit? Issues 2012, October 2012

Jobs In a Ripple-Out Economy Come From Oil, Gas, Coal, and Then the Cloud 10/24/2012 Forbes.com, 10-24-12

Presidents CAN Lower Gasoline Prices Forbes.com, 10-17-12

Information Technology Has Created a New Electric Demand Paradigm Forbes.com, 01-08-13

Fracknation: An Elegant Antidote to Media Misinformation National Review Online, 01-07-13

Foreign Affairs

Look to Software Not Hardware to Fix India's Grid Forbes.com, 08-01-12

Manufacturing, 3D Printing and What China Knows About the Emerging American Century Forbes.com, 07-05-11

Healthcare

Tricorder Update -- Social Medicine is the Next Big Thing After Social Media Forbes.com, 05-21-12

The Solyndrafication of Healthcare Technology Forbes.com, 06-30-12

Homeland Security

Can Terrorists Turn Out Gotham’s Lights? City Journal, Autumn 2004

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Legal Issues

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Media

Fracknation: An Elegant Antidote to Media Misinformation National Review Online, 01-07-13

National Politics

Presidents CAN Lower Gasoline Prices Forbes.com, 10-17-12

The International Energy Agency Catches Up With America's Oil Producers Forbes.com, 11-13-12

Matthew Hennessey and Mark Mills discuss Mills's new report, The Case for Exports: America's Hydrocarbon Industry Can revive the Economy and Eliminate the Trade Deficit Podcast: Interview, May 21, 2013

We Need a 21st Century Energy Policy RealClearEnergy, 05-24-13

Unleash the Energy-Export Revolution National Review Online, 06-03-13

New York City

Can Terrorists Turn Out Gotham’s Lights? City Journal, Autumn 2004

NYC Economy

Don't Close Indian Point New York Daily News, 07-20-03

NYS Politics


Politics

Presidents CAN Lower Gasoline Prices Forbes.com, 10-17-12

The International Energy Agency Catches Up With America's Oil Producers Forbes.com, 11-13-12

Unleash the Energy-Export Revolution National Review Online, 06-03-13

Regulation

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Tech and Environment

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

How Cities Green the Planet City Journal, Winter 2000

New, Pivotal Tech Revolution in the Offing? The San Diego Union-Tribune, 05-12-12

The Coming Tech-led Boom Wall Street Journal, 01-30-12

Notes From Underground Wall Street Journal, 07-02-10

Will Exxon Get Googled? The American Spectator, 11-01-08

The Security-Industrial Complex Forbes.com, 11-29-04

Tricorder Update -- Social Medicine is the Next Big Thing After Social Media Forbes.com, 05-21-12

Follow Splunk Into The Big Data Revolution That Changes The Jobs Equation Forbes.com, 04-23-12

Big Data Unleashes the Electric Equivalent of a Free Keystone Pipeline Forbes.com, 03-19-12

Buckeye Oil Billions Will Unleash an Ohio Manufacturing Tech Boom Forbes.com, 09-26-11

Smart Grids Highlight Innovation's Promise and Where America Leads the World, Even China Forbes.com, 08-15-11

Clean Energy Driven Job Growth Is A Return To The Stone Age Forbes.com, 11-12-10

Space: The Only Frontier Forbes.com, 02-16-10

Copenhagen's Future Schlock Forbes.com, 12-18-09

C.P. Snow Was Wrong Forbes.com, 11-06-09

Post Fukushima-- Burn More Coal and Oil, and Hire More Engineers Not Regulators Forbes.com, 03-20-11

A123 Bites the Dust Because They Forgot Their ABCs Forbes.com, 10-16-12

Down the Digital Rabbit Hole as we Automate Everything Forbes.com, 10-06-12

Bravo New York Times For Discovering Reality in ‘Power, Pollution and The Internet’ Forbes.com, 09-25-12

Books of Note -- Killer Drones, Tech Jobs and the Internet's Birth on Labor Day 1969 Forbes.com, 09-02-12

Romney Chooses a Tech-Centric Energy Plan to Jumpstart Jobs and Economic Growth Forbes.com, 08-23-12

The Solyndrafication of Healthcare Technology Forbes.com, 06-30-12

Manufacturing, 3D Printing and What China Knows About the Emerging American Century Forbes.com, 07-05-11

Entertainment's Tech Boom: The Internet Has Been Assimilated Forbes.com, 05-10-11

IBM's Watson Jeopardy Stunt Unleashes a Third Great Cycle in Computing Forbes.com, 02-21-11

Want More Jobs? Unleash Small Businesses, Venture Capital and Technology Forbes.com, 01-28-11

WikiLeaks Fallout is Bullish for Boeing, Airbus and United-Continental Forbes.com, 12-15-10

Information Technology Has Created a New Electric Demand Paradigm Forbes.com, 01-08-13

Fracknation: An Elegant Antidote to Media Misinformation National Review Online, 01-07-13

Technology

How Cities Green the Planet City Journal, Winter 2000

Can Terrorists Turn Out Gotham’s Lights? City Journal, Autumn 2004

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Deregulation Will Survive Enron Wall Street Journal, 12-06-01

New, Pivotal Tech Revolution in the Offing? The San Diego Union-Tribune, 05-12-12

The Coming Tech-led Boom Wall Street Journal, 01-30-12

Notes From Underground Wall Street Journal, 07-02-10

Will Exxon Get Googled? The American Spectator, 11-01-08

The Security-Industrial Complex Forbes.com, 11-29-04

Tricorder Update -- Social Medicine is the Next Big Thing After Social Media Forbes.com, 05-21-12

Has Apple Peaked? Hardly. Forbes.com, 05-14-12

Follow Splunk Into The Big Data Revolution That Changes The Jobs Equation Forbes.com, 04-23-12

Crowdsourcing Innovation In New York City: Cornell v Stanford Forbes.com, 12-13-11

Smart Grids Highlight Innovation's Promise and Where America Leads the World, Even China Forbes.com, 08-15-11

Post Fukushima-- Burn More Coal and Oil, and Hire More Engineers Not Regulators Forbes.com, 03-20-11

Bravo New York Times For Discovering Reality in ‘Power, Pollution and The Internet’ Forbes.com, 09-25-12

Books of Note -- Killer Drones, Tech Jobs and the Internet's Birth on Labor Day 1969 Forbes.com, 09-02-12

The Great New American Outsourcing, Clouds to China? Forbes.com, 07-16-12

Entertainment's Tech Boom: The Internet Has Been Assimilated Forbes.com, 05-10-11

IBM's Watson Jeopardy Stunt Unleashes a Third Great Cycle in Computing Forbes.com, 02-21-11

Want More Jobs? Unleash Small Businesses, Venture Capital and Technology Forbes.com, 01-28-11

WikiLeaks Fallout is Bullish for Boeing, Airbus and United-Continental Forbes.com, 12-15-10

Telecommunications

Smart Grids Highlight Innovation's Promise and Where America Leads the World, Even China Forbes.com, 08-15-11

Terrorism

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

War on Terror

Can Terrorists Turn Out Gotham’s Lights? City Journal, Autumn 2004

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002