Biography

Mark T. Green is an internationally known family business consultant, speaker, author, educator, and researcher. Mark leads his own family business consulting firm and the co-founder of the Pacific Family Business Institute.

His expert counsel is sought by companies throughout the world on family business issues such as succession, governance, strategy, conflict resolution, and leadership. He teaches executive education programs, workshops, seminars, and academic courses for family businesses and professionals that serve family enterprises.

An accomplished professional speaker, Mark has given presentations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, Australia, and New Zealand. He has been a keynote or featured speaker at over 400 conferences, trade shows, continuing education programs, executive education programs, workshops, and industry meetings.

Mark often serves as a source for the media on stories about family businesses. He has been quoted in various well-known print and broadcast media including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, Inc., Forbes, MSNBC, The Seattle Times, The Denver Post, The Oregonian, and many others.

Mark is also a regular contributor to various newspapers, magazines, and industry trade publications and serves as an advisor to radio and TV programs with family business themes. In addition, he has authored or co-authored numerous articles for academic journals, book chapters, and book reviews covering topics from family business, entrepreneurship, management, economics, and public policy.

Mark’s book, Inside the Multi-Generational Family Business, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011, was the first to explore how generational differences create new challenges for family businesses when several unique generations converge as owners, managers, employees, and shareholders.

Before founding his family business consultancy, Mark was a principal with The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc. Mark also served as director of the Austin Family Business Program, as well as the A.E. Coleman Professor of Family Business. He was the founder and director of the Austin Entrepreneurship Program at Oregon State University’s College of Business, and the co-founder of the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC). Mark is currently teaching family business and conducting research for the University of Vermont and the University of Washington.

Mark earned his Ph.D. in economics and political science, and an M.A. in political economy from Claremont Graduate University.  He holds an MBA from Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Cal Poly Pomona. 

Mark continues and has served on the board of directors for many family businesses and non-profit organizations. He is very active in the arts, music, and civic activities and is the Co-Founder of Make Music Day Salem. He enjoys life in Salem, Oregon, with his wife, Karen, and daughter, Danielle, in their own family business, RiverCity Rock Star Academy.