Mark Partridge - author, attorney and professional speaker
A "Top Rated Speaker" at the SHRM 2008 Annual Convention and a "Best In Class" speaker at the PCMA 2009 Annual Convention, Mark provides high-content programs that will entertain, educate and inspire you and your team to action.
A graduate of Harvard Law School,
Mark has over 25 years of experience as a trademark lawyer, including experience as counsel to R.J.R Nabisco, expert adviser for the World
Intellectual Property Organization, and witness in the "Trial of the Century."
As an attorney, Mark has been hired by many of the world's best known
corporations - including Nike, MasterCard, Nabisco, Kraft, Navistar,
PepsiCo and others - to help with intellectual property management,
protection and strategy.
He now brings the lessons learned from that experience
to help companies of all sizes - from "dream and a prayer" to "billion dollar
buy-out" - achieve greater business success with their ideas, brands,
information and innovation.
He is the author of the book Guiding Rights: Trademarks, Copyright
and the Internet (2003) and co-author of a chapter entitled
"Intellectual Property: Protect What is Yours and Avoid Taking What
Belongs to Someone Else" in the ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning
Professions (2008). His article "Copyrights and Wrongs: How to avoid
committing copyright infringements when creating training materials"
appears in the November 2008 issue of HR Magazine.
Mark is
the past president for the Illinois Chapter of the National Speakers
Association and a resource speaker for Vistage International, the
world's largest CEO membership organization.