Mark Britton
American businessman
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Mark Britton (born February 21, 1967) is a former lawyer and Expedia executive and founder of the legal marketplace Avvo.com.[1]
Mark Britton | |
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Britton giving commencement address at University of Utah Law School (2017) | |
| Born | February 1967 (age 59) |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Founder of Avvo |
In 2015, Mark won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Pacific Northwest.[2] Mark was also identified as one of three upcoming Seattle "Tech Titans 2.0" by Puget Sound Business Journal in 2012[3] and as one of Seattle's Top 25 Innovators by Seattle Business Magazine in 2007.[4] Upon his retirement from Avvo in 2018, Above the Law called him "the person who most disrupted law this decade."[5]
Mark is a long-standing member of the Gonzaga University Board of Regents and served on the Board of Directors of Orbitz Worldwide from 2011[6] until Expedia purchased Orbitz in September 2015.[7] Mark was named one of the American Bar Association's inaugural Legal Rebels in 2009.[8]
Early life and education
Britton was born in Butte, Montana and attended high school in Missoula, Montana. He graduated from Gonzaga University in 1989 with a degree in Finance and graduated from George Washington University Law School in 1992. He attended Gonzaga's program in Florence, Italy during the 1987/1988 academic year and returned to teach there during the 2004/2005 academic year.