Mark Ryland

Chief Technology Officer
Mpower

Mark Ryland is co-founder and CTO of Mpower Media, LLC, a technology firm providing products and services for family-oriented video and Internet content management.

From 1991 to 2000 Ryland served in a variety of technical, marketing, and management roles at Microsoft Corporation, culminating in his work from 1998 to 2000 as founder and Director of Microsoft's Standards Strategy Group. Prior to his work in standardization he worked in the Windows NT group as Lead Program Manager for COM/DCOM, as well as a Senior Technical Evangelist and Senior Architectural Engineer in Systems Marketing and Federal Sales organizations, respectively.

Mark was originally trained as a lawyer, matriculating at Boalt Hall (U.C. Berkeley) School of Law and clerking on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He was an associate at the firm of Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., before jumping to a software career. Since leaving Microsoft, Mark has served as a technical consultant to a number of firms, served on the board of directors of several for-profit technology companies, as well as a number of non-profit educational, academic, public policy, and philanthropic groups.