Mark Mills

Mark P. Mills is founder and CEO of the Digital Power Group, an energy and tech capital advisory group.  He was formerly the co-founder and chief tech strategist for Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund, where, among numerous other transactions, he served as Chairman and CEO of a lithium battery start-up, and earlier 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.  Mark also is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

He writes the Energy Intelligence column for Forbes and blogs at Energy Facts Weekly. He is co-author of the book, "The Bottomless Well" (Basic Books 2006) 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, as well as professional publications.  He has appeared on many news and talk 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.  Earlier, Mark founded and ran an energy technology consulting business with several hundred clients. He served as a staff consultant to The White House Science Office under President Reagan, a number of the Federal Research Laboratories, the (former) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the U.S. Department of Energy.  Early in his career, Mark was an experimental physicist and development engineer for RCA in the fields of integrated circuits and microprocessors in both development and production fabs, and the RCA Sarnoff Research Center. He also 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, and is a member of numerous professional societies including the American Physical Society and Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers.

Select Works

• "Big Data And Microseismic Imaging Will Accelerate The Smart Drilling Oil And Gas Revolution," Mark Mills, May 8, 2013
• "California Could Be the Next Shale Boom State ," Mark Mills, January 15, 2013
• "Information Technology Has Created a New Electric Demand Paradigm," Mark Mills, January 8, 2013
• "The Efficiency Wall and the Future of the Internet’s Energy Cost," Mark Mills, September 26, 2012
• "Liberating the Energy Economy: What Washington Must Do," Mark Mills, September 26, 2012
• "Bravo New York Times For Discovering Reality in 'Power, Pollution and The Internet'," Mark Mills, September 25, 2012
• "Welcome to Earth Where Networks Gobble Power – and Coal," Mark Mills, September 9, 2012
• "Can the U.S. Become a Leader in Energy Exports?," Mark Mills, July 27, 2012
• "Unleashing the North American Energy Colossus: Hydrocarbons Can Fuel Growth and Prosperity," Mark Mills, July 9, 2012
• "New, Pivotal Tech Revolution in the Offing?," Mark Mills, May 12, 2012
• "On the Precipice of the Next Great Growth Cycle and America's Technological Future," Mark Mills, April 3, 2012
• "Rating Yelp as a Bellwether of the Social Media Tech Boom," Mark Mills, March 5, 2012
• "Wow, Even Tom Friedman Wants to Drill Baby Drill?," Mark Mills, February 27, 2012
• "Storage Wars Expand With Google Ready to Compete With Carbonite and Dropbox," Mark Mills, February 24, 2012
• "When Science Gets Subverted For Political Goals," Mark Mills, November 24, 2010
• "From Oil Sands and Cornfields to Server Farms: Principles to Consider When Formulating Energy Policy," Mark Mills, July 17, 2006