Mark Haas

Current

• CEO/Copywriter at Mark Haas & Associates, Inc.

Past

• Senior Associate at Copithorne & Bellows
• Technical Director/Editorial Director at Osborne/McGraw-Hill
• Managing Editor at BYTE Magazine

• Acquisitions Editor at McGraw-Hill
• Editorial Supervisor at McGraw-Hill

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Education

• New York University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Public Relations and Communications

Mark Haas’s Summary

Born in Brooklyn, NY, Mark abandoned his dream of becoming a major league baseball player at the age of six after the Dodgers moved to L.A. and Ebbett's Field was razed to make way for low-income housing.

Later in life, after a stint as a New York City taxi driver and a few other truly odd jobs, Mark stumbled into his first career editing and acquiring college-level electronics textbooks for McGraw-Hill, Inc. The publishing giant eventually grew tired of his pranks and designer suits and transferred him to a rural village in southern New Hampshire (pop. 5000) where he took the reins of BYTE magazine as its first managing editor and rode roughshod over its unruly editorial staff. Mark enjoyed threatening editors, shoveling snow, swatting bugs and running the computer industry's leading monthly magazine, which grew to more than 700 pages, but to preserve his sanity, not to mention his marriage, he next transferred to Berkeley, CA to serve as technical director and editorial director for Osborne/McGraw-Hill, a leading publisher of microcomputer trade books.

Mark began his next career in 1988 with startup Copithorne & Bellows Public Relations (now Porter Novelli International) as a senior associate and their principal writer and technologist, developing product positioning strategies and press materials for leaders in the computer, telecommunications, networking, software and semiconductor industries, among others. After helping C&B become the leading high-technology public relations agency, Mark set off to try his hand as an independent copywriter in 1991 to serve the specialized communications needs of high-technology companies and public relations agencies, and has been terminally unemployable ever since.

NYU is still trying to understand how it awarded Mark a bachelor's degree in physics, his high school English teachers all had heart attacks after learning of his successful writing career and he dreams of the day when Californians will learn how to drive.

Mark Haas’s Specialties:

Press releases, backgrounders, whitepapers, case studies, articles and other documents and collateral covering a broad range of technologies.

Mark Haas’s Experience

• CEO/Copywriter

  Mark Haas & Associates, Inc.

  (Public Relations and Communications industry)

  1992 — Present (17 years)

  Specialized writing services to support high-technology public relations and marketing communications programs.

• Senior Associate

  Copithorne & Bellows

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  1988 — 1992 (4 years)

  Principal writer and technologist, developing product positioning strategies and press materials for leaders in the computer, telecommunications, networking, software and semiconductor industries, among others.

• Technical Director/Editorial Director

  Osborne/McGraw-Hill

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  1983 — 1986 (3 years)

  Managed a staff of numerous editors, copyeditors and other production-related positions. Responsible for day-to-day editorial operations, editorial content and production.

• Managing Editor

  BYTE Magazine

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  1981 — 1983 (2 years)

  First managing editor of leading industry trade publication, managing a staff of numerous editors, copyeditors and other production-related positions. Responsible for day-to-day editorial operations, monthly editorial content and editorial production.

• Acquisitions Editor

  McGraw-Hill

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  1979 — 1981 (2 years)

  Contracted and developed college-level textbooks in electronics and computing.

• Editorial Supervisor

  McGraw-Hill

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  1976 — 1979 (3 years)

  Production editor overseeing the editorial, graphics and production processes for a variety of technical, college-level texbooks.

Mark Haas’s Education

• New York University

  BA , Physics

Additional Information

Mark Haas’s Interests:

Technology, travel, food, outdoors, aviation, photography

Mark Haas’s Groups:

Kyoto Kai

•    Semiconductor PR

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