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VeriSign, Inc, in August 2009 appointed Mark McLaughlin as chief executive officer.<ref>[https://investor.verisign.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=401947 VeriSign Board of Directors Names Mark McLaughlin as Chief Executive Officer and Brian Robins as Chief Financial Officer; Jim Bidzos Named Permanent Executive Chairman]</ref> Prior to that VeriSign Named Mark McLaughlin as President and Chief Operating Officer in January 2009.
McLaughlin previously held a number of key positions at VeriSign from 2000 to 2007, ultimately serving as executive vice president of products and marketing. In that capacity, McLaughlin played a key architectural role in developing VeriSign's strategy to focus the company on its core Internet infrastructure services, while divesting several non-core businesses. McLaughlin's earlier contributions also include having run the company's Naming Services business, where he led the successful negotiation of the current agreements for the management of the .com and .net registries, as well as a number of key strategic alliances with major partners such as eBay and Microsoft.
The Naming and Directory Services Business Unit runs the Internet’s .com and .net system and provides powerful, proven platforms to businesses to support their mission-critical applications across disparate networks, devices, and end points. Prior to joining the Naming and Directory Services business unit, Mr. McLaughlin was vice president of Corporate Business Development for [[VeriSign]]. In this role, Mr. McLaughlin lead VeriSign corporate wide business-development efforts and was responsible for strategic VeriSign agreements and relationships with [[IBM]], [[Microsoft]], [[FDC]], [[Inuit]], [[eBay]], [[Sun Microsystems]] and other leading technology companies. Before that, Mr. McLaughlin was the general manager of the [[VeriSign]] Payment Services Business Unit, leading the [[VeriSign]] Internet payment business.<ref>[https://investor.verisign.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=359183 VeriSign Names Mark McLaughlin as President and Chief Operating Officer]</ref>
==Work==
Prior to [[VeriSign]], Mr. McLaughlin was the vice president of sales and business development for [[Signio]], a leading Internet payment company, and was instrumental in the negotiation and acquisition of Signio by [[VeriSign]] in 1999.
Prior to joining [[Signio]], Mr. McLaughlin was the vice president of business development for [[Gemplus]], the world’s leading smart-card company. In this role, Mr. McLaughlin was responsible for [[Gemplu]]s business development and legal affairs and negotiated and closed many strategic alliances and business deals for the company both in the Americas, Asia, and in Europe.
Prior to joining [[Gemplus]], Mr. McLaughlin was the general counsel of [[Caere]] Corporation, the word’s leading [[OCR]] software company. Before joining [[Caere]], Mr. McLaughlin practiced law with Cooley Godward, a leading high technology law firm in Silicon Valley, in the firm’s Information and Technology Licensing Group.
==Education==
Mark McLaughlin received his J.D., Magna cum Laude, from Seattle University School of Law and his B.S. Degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
==Honors==
He served as an attack helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army and earned an Army Commendation Medal and Airborne Wings.
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