I also served as financial advisor on the bond issues for the
International Terminal at the Chicago O'Hare Airport and the new
Comiskey Park Stadium. In early 1996, I moved from investment banking
to the technology group working on internet projects.
For most of 1995, I took a leave from First Chicago to work in the
Offices of the Governor and Lt. Governor as the Technology Coordinator
for the State of Illinois.
I was
responsible for managing technology projects in education and government
agencies. We created the first prototype home page on the web for the
Governor and served as champion of this technology in presentations
to the Governor and legislative leaders.
Governor's Press Release - Technology
Post
Prior to joining First Chicago in 1986, I worked for six years in
state government in Illinois on budget, debt management and economic
development projects. I was a division chief in the Bureau of the Budget
and learned a lot from the smart people working for Governor Thompson about good
information design and public speaking.
John Gilchrist, Mark Gallagher, Robert F. Mandeville
London, 1986 |
The photo on the left was shot in London in
1986 during a business trip to learn about the European bond market..
On the right is Bob Mandeville, the budget
director of the State of Illinois and my boss for six years. Bob taught me how
to look at complicated issues, evaluate the options and communicate solutions
in simple terms to the decision makers.
John Gilchrist on the left was my boss at First
Chicago and taught me how to focus my sales and marketing skills.
|
EducationExecutive
Training - Darden Business School, University of Virginia, Change Management
- Large Corporate Environment, March 2002
(class photo, summary
of events)
University of Illinois
at Urbana
- BA, Liberal Arts - Political Science / History
- MBA, Master of Business Administration, College of Business
Homewood-Flossmoor High School in south suburban
Chicago
Volunteer and Community Projects
Produced the Gavin
Coyle Christmas CD, released November, 2000. This music CD is a big hit in the
western suburbs of Chicago.
Appointed by Governor Edgar of Illinois to a five year
term (1998 - 2003) as Chairman of the Illinois State Employees
Retirement System. As Chairman, I also served on the
Illinois State Board of Investments - the investment arm of the state pension
systems that invests over 6 billion of state funds.
Illinois State Employees Retirement System Board
2002 photo
Back row (l to r): Loren Iglarsh, John Stevens, Mark Gallagher, Joe Pisano
Front row (l to r): Doris Clark, Sharmin Doering, Caryl Wadley-Foy
Appointed by the Governor to the State
Board of Education - the governing board for K-12 education
in Illinois from 1993 to 1996. On the Board I was the primary advocate for greater use of instructional technology in classroom
and led a successful effort to create a new technology unit
in the agency and helped develop the first K-12 technology plan
for the State.
From 1994 - 1996, I served on the board of
the North Central Regional
Education Lab (NCREL). This is a federally funded research
lab that assists schools in the Midwest with technology and
assessment projects.
Media and Conference Activities
Information Sharing Session with the EPA regarding
Intranet Usability and Core Tools such as Employee Directory, Internal Yellow
Pages and Store Lookup. November, 2005. View
presentation here (1.6mg powerpoint)
Quoted
in Information Week article about use of Google for corporate intranets,
January 20, 2003.
Presentation to the
Knowledge Management / Intranets conference at the Santa Clara Convention
Center, California,
October, 2002. Topic: Good Information Design, corporate intranet case studies.
Presentation to the
Intranets East in Reston, Virginia on October 16, 2000, topic: building a
compelling and easy to use intranet.
Presentation to the
Financial Portals Conference in New York City on August 1, 2000, topic:
good home page design / portal design
Presentation to the Intranets 2000
Conference in San Jose, CA in March, 2000, topic: best practices of intranet
site building
Feature story in The Bond
Buyer about career change from investment
banker to intranet / internet webmaster, April 28, 1998.
Infoseek article with
my comments on the intranet publishing product: Net-It-Central, March, 1998.
Featured in story in Network
World talking about potential of advertising in a corporate
intranet, March 1998.
CLTV news segment on
my personal web page ran
several times in February, 1998.
Developed and ran a workshop on building a low cost intranet at the
Intranet and Corporate
Communications Conference, Ragan Communications, Westin
Hotel, Chicago, December, 1997.
Computerworld article about
the growth of corporate intranets, June, 1997.
Web
Week story about my paper on building a low-cost virtual intranet, May, 1997.
Cantor Fitzgerald Fixed Income Forum, La Quinta CA, April 10-13, 1997,
Panel Discussion moderated by the Managing Editor of Wired Magazine. I did
a presentation on current trends in corporate intranets.
Web
Week story with my comments on the value of intranet
standards, March, 1997.
Computerworld article about
sources of funding for corporate intranets, January, 1997.
Featured on the cover of Computerworld (picture above) including my comments
on the impact of Microsoft giving away free browsers on the cost of products
from Netscape, December, 1996.
"Internet
Tough Guys" article in Computeworld talking about how we built one of the
first web sites for a financial institution, January, 1995.
Personality
In
2002, the Bank hired Personalysis - a consulting firm, as part of team
building exercise. The goal was to better understand your co-workers, and
in theory, work better together as a result. The following is a summary of
the report on my personality.
How to Contact
Personal E-Mail : mark@gallagher.com
Cell Phone : 630_660__ 1259__
Web URL of this page: http://www.gallagher.com/bio.html
More Photos
Mark in 2006
Mark at his favorite museum - the Orsay Museum in Paris, 1999 vacation
photo
Mark setup in the lawn section
of Ravinia, waiting for start of the Tony Bennett concert, Summer, 1999.
Updated: 2007
gallagher.com
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