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Mark Lesswing
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Office,
National Association of Realtors
About Mark
Mark Lesswing is the senior vice president and chief technology officer for the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, and started programming robots just out of college. In 1988, he began working with object-oriented programming, and in 1992 he launched a consultancy. He has worked for large database vendors such as Sybase (as a startup) and Oracle, and spent a summer in Europe setting up operations for a vendor.
For three years prior to joining NAR, Mark was involved in corporate turnarounds. He is a speaker at major trade conferences, and is listed in the International Who’s Who of Information Technology and the National Register of Who’s Who in Executive and Professions.
Having grown up in Buffalo, New York, Lesswing also has lived in New York and San Francisco. Currently he resides in Chicago with his wife, Susannah, and their three children.