Mark Lewyn

Background

About Mark Lewyn

Mark is President and Co-founder of Sorfeo, which buys and optimizes brands launched on Amazon, and the author of "The $500 Start-up on Amazon." He has been in, and around, the technology world for nearly three decades, first as a technology writer for major publications such as BusinessWeek magazine and Gannett's USA Today and, more recently, as a technology investor, advisor and technology executive. Before Sorfeo, Mark ran JEM Partners, which launched numerous brands on Amazon and, before that, he founded and ran Paxfire, which was the first company to monetize, in partnership with Yahoo, DNS error traffic for Internet Service Providers. The company, which was eventually acquired by a rival, created 50 new jobs and generated nearly $100 million in revenue during its lifetime. Prior to Paxfire, Mark was part of the founding management team of CitySearch, which was eventually acquired by Barry Diller's Interactive Corp. and merged with TicketMaster. Mark then moved on to become a founder of EzGov, an early provider of e-government services that was backed with $20 million from Warburg Pincus. Mark also served as a vice president for Vector Development, a venture capital firm and business incubator, also backed by Warburg. Mark writes regularly about the technology scene for a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today and AllThingsD. He is a 1982 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.