Mark J. Estren This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. The Infodad History Page: Our name, our parent company and our president

   infodad.homestead.com/Whyinfod - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/4/2004   Last Visited: 4/5/2005

   The real Infodad is Mark J. Estren, founder and president of TransCentury Communications, Inc., and father of two Web-savvy children. He is a Psychology and English Ph.D. and the former editor and publisher of High Technology Business magazine. He was General Manager of Financial News Network on cable television, Executive Producer of The Nightly Business Report for PBS, Executive Vice President of United Press International, and a senior and executive producer for both CBS and ABC News. Fortune magazine even chose him as one of its 'People to Watch.' Estren is the author of A History of Underground Comics and was a major contributor to In a Word, a book for which he created and defined dozens of words that ought to exist in English, but don't. He generally prefers to use words that do exist. TransCentury uses them in its editing, writing, financing and consulting work for a wide variety of media companies, publishing firms and other businesses. Projects include book and music reviewing...software testing and reviews...writing and editing several publications...producing columns, articles and short pieces on investments, family issues and psychology for national distribution...thinking up creative marketing plans for publishers and authors...and much more. Among Estren's avocations are classical music -- he studied conducting at Tanglewood Institute under Erich Leinsdorf -- and reptiles. Estren is a herpetologist, who regularly does presentations at schools and elsewhere featuring some of the many snakes, lizards and turtles with which he shares his living space. (Aren't you glad you read to the end of this?)