Honorable Mark Lindsay is the Director of the HealthCare and Pharmaceuticals practice at The Livingston Group, where he employs his expertise in government relations and private sector management and communications to assist a wide variety of clients. He also focuses on the areas of International Relations and Business Development, Financial Service and Tax, Veterans Affairs, Technology, and the Environment.
Mr. Lindsay served in President Clinton’s White House as Assistant to the President for the Office of Management and Administration. As the Chief Operations, Chief Financial, and Chief Information Technology Officer, he led the White House’s largest office, with a staff of over 3,000, and managed a budget of more than one billion dollars. He reported directly to the President and the Chief of Staff. His areas of responsibility included the White House Military Office (Air Force One, The White House Communications Agency, the Medical Unit and Camp David), and running the White House Operations and the Executive Office of the President’s Office of Administration (Finance, Information Systems, Human Resources, Legal/Appropriations and Security). Mr. Lindsay managed the financing of Presidential political activities with Democratic organizations, including the Democratic National Committee and its Chairman. President Clinton selected him to be the Operational Lead for the White House’s 2001 election transition, and he worked on three subsequent presidential transitions. Mr. Lindsay also served as the lead on the White House Office Transition for President Barack Obama.
Prior to his appointment to the White House, Mr. Lindsay served as senior legislative aid and
counsel to Congressman Louis Stokes (D-OH). He worked closely with Democrats and the
Congressional Black Caucus on a wide variety of business and economic issues, including
formulating the new South African Constitution.
At UnitedHealth Group, Mr. Lindsay was Vice President of Public Communications and Strategy and President of the AARP Pharmacy Services Division. He coordinated all of the company’s worldwide contacts with national, international and local media as central spokesperson and communications leader. Mr Lindsay also led efforts to develop and expand the company’s relationship with Democratic and Republican state, local and national public officials in all fifty states.
Mr. Lindsay graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School for Advanced
Management, which included a curriculum in high-level corporate and leadership strategies to maximize organizational value, business technology and systems thinking, and corporate innovation and finance. Global competition coursework concentrated on Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. He graduated from Georgetown University with a master’s degree in International Affairs, where he focused on international relations, human rights, nationalism, democracy, international politics, international economics, defense issues, and international economic development. He received his law degree from Case Western Reserve University Law School graduate, where he published The Recovery of Cultural Artifacts: The Legacy of our Archaeological Heritage as a Senior Notes Editor for the CWRU Journal of International Law. His undergraduate degree is from Macalester College, in Economics and Business and Classical Civilizations and Archaeology.
Mr. Lindsay serves as a member of the board for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio; as a board member of the Truman National Security Project Board and the Truman Center Board in Washington, DC; and as a board member for LiveOn New York. He is a corporate board member of U.S. Preventative Medicine, Vivos Therapeutics, and Cerescan, and he is a trustee of Macalester College’s Board of Trustees Emeritus in St. Paul, MN.
Mr. Lindsay and his wife, Carla, have two sons, both in college. He and Carla recently created a non-profit organization focused on providing solar-powered green energy for sub-Saharan African communities and farms, Sustainably Empowering People Globally. In his free time, he enjoys travel and golf.
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