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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Articles/Op-eds

• Unleash the Energy-Export Revolution, National Review Online, 06-03-13
• We Need a 21st Century Energy Policy, RealClearEnergy, 05-24-13
• Big Data And Microseismic Imaging Will Accelerate The Smart Drilling Oil and Gas Revolution, Forbes.com, 05-08-13
• California Could Be the Next Shale Boom State, Wall Street Journal, 01-16-13
• 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
• 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
• Energy Innovation Could Rescue California, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 11-15-12
• The International Energy Agency Catches Up With America's Oil Producers, Forbes.com, 11-13-12
• 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
• 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
• 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
• U.S. Can Become An Energy Export Nation, , 07-25-12
• The Great New American Outsourcing, Clouds to China?, Forbes.com, 07-16-12
• The Solyndrafication of Healthcare Technology, Forbes.com, 06-30-12
• 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
• New, Pivotal Tech Revolution in the Offing?, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 05-12-12
• 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
• Wow, Even Tom Friedman Wants to Drill Baby Drill?, Forbes.com, 02-27-12
• The Coming Tech-led Boom, Wall Street Journal, 01-30-12
• With the Tricorder X PRIZE Qualcomm Launches the New Era of Metadata Medicine, Forbes.com, 01-18-12
• Crowdsourcing Innovation In New York City: Cornell v Stanford, Forbes.com, 12-13-11
• The Relentless Pursuit of Magical Energy, Forbes.com, 10-28-11
• 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
• 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
• Post Fukushima-- Burn More Coal and Oil, and Hire More Engineers Not Regulators, Forbes.com, 03-20-11
• 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
• Clean Energy Driven Job Growth Is A Return To The Stone Age, Forbes.com, 11-12-10
• Notes From Underground, Wall Street Journal, 07-02-10
• 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
• The Efficacy Of Presidential Energy Policy, Forbes.com, 04-07-09
• Will Exxon Get Googled?, The American Spectator, 11-01-08
• Getting Over Oil, Commentary, 09-15-05
• A Power Portfolio, Forbes.com, 04-11-05
• Heavy Iron = Energy Independence, The New York Sun, 04-07-05
• The Art of Energy, Slate, 02-01-05
• Oil, Oil, Everywhere . . ., Wall Street Journal, 01-27-05
• The Security-Industrial Complex, Forbes.com, 11-29-04
• Brawn & Brains, Forbes.com, 09-15-03
• Don't Close Indian Point, New York Daily News, 07-20-03
• Buy (Some) Utilities, Forbes.com, 02-17-03
• Deregulation Will Survive Enron, Wall Street Journal, 12-06-01
• Got a Computer? More Power to You., Wall Street Journal, 09-07-00
• How Non-Green Cities Are Rebuilding the American Forests, Los Angeles Times, 12-29-99

Testimony

• A Focus on the Outlook for Achieving North American Energy Independence Within the Decade, September 13, 2012
• Testimony by Mark Mills on The American Energy Initiative, 09-13-12

Research

• The Case for Exports: America's Hydrocarbon Industry Can Revive the Economy and Eliminate the Trade Deficit Power & Growth Initiative Report 3, May 2013
• Oil, Gas, and Coal Can Prime the Jobs Pump: Which States Will Benefit? Issues 2012 30, October 2012
• Liberating the Energy Economy: What Washington Must Do Power & Growth Initiative Report 2, September 2012
• Unleashing the North American Energy Colossus: Hydrocarbons Can Fuel Growth and Prosperity Power & Growth Initiative Report 1, July 2012
• 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

Podcasts

• 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, 05-21-13
• 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", 07-05-12

Blog Postings:

• Forbes' Energy Intelligence

Books

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

City Journal articles

• Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power, Winter 2005
• Can Terrorists Turn Out Gotham’s Lights?, Autumn 2004
• How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism, Winter 2002
• How Cities Green the Planet, Winter 2000