Mark Everson is the only presidential candidate with both extensive business and federal executive branch experience. In the private sector, Everson has held both operating and financial positions within companies in the United States, Turkey, France and Zambia. His assignments have ranged from plant manager of a unionized beverage can factory to senior financial positions at the world’s largest packaging and airline catering companies. In the Reagan Administration, Everson held foreign policy and law enforcement positions at the US Information Agency and in the Department of Justice. At USIA, Everson worked on sensitive public diplomacy projects, including INF deployment and the establishment of Radio Marti. At the DOJ, Attorney General Ed Meese appointed Everson to Deputy Commissioner at the INS, where he supervised all agency operations, including the Border Patrol and inspectors at the ports of entry. In the second Bush Administration, Everson was Deputy Director for Management at the OMB before his appointment as Commissioner of the IRS, which achieved record service and enforcement results under his leadership. In addition to twelve years of federal government service, Everson has state government experience as well, having served in the cabinet of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels for three years. Under Daniels, he ran Indiana’s unemployment insurance and job training programs. Everson was the CEO of the American Red Cross and is currently Vice Chairman of Alliantgroup, a leading provider of specialty tax services for small and mid-sized businesses. Everson is a graduate of Yale and the NYU Stern School of Business. Mark has four children and lives in Mississippi.