About Founder and CEO Robert Mark
Robert Mark, a 30-year aviation-industry veteran, is founder and Chief Executive Officer of CommAvia, an innovative marketing communications consulting group that calls airports, airport businesses and some of the major aviation associations around the globe their clients.
Using their highly-developed international network of aviation contacts, CommAvia strategists accurately identify industry issues before they emerge as threats and design the communication tactics needed -- such as community or media relations, advertising or instant crisis communications - to counter the challenge.
As a strategist with Ogilvy PR Worldwide in Chicago, for example, Robert Mark was instrumental in developing the City of Chicago's Department of Aviation message for the controversial Peotone Airport project.
 A journalist for much of his career and a contributing editor to Aviation International News, Mark was named as Airbus 2004 Aerospace Journalist of the Year. Author of three aviation books for McGraw-Hill, he has also written for Business & Commercial Aviation, Professional Pilot, Flying and Air Line Pilot magazine.
Mark is a professional speaker on marketing and communications topics in the aviation industry and was a regular commentator on the Internet's first aviation-focused radio program, Aviation Today. He was the vice president of Public Relations for the Aviation Space Writers Association and president of the Chicago chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators.
A former airline and corporate pilot, as well as a current Certified Flight Instructor, Mark has logged over 6000 hours in aircraft from a Cessna 150 to the Boeing BBJ. He is type rated in the CE-500 & CE-650 Citations, as well as the Hawker 800 having flown in Part 91, as well as Part 121 & 135 operations. Mark also spent ten years of his career with the FAA.
Robert Mark received his graduate degree from the Integrated Marketing Communications program at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Northeastern Illinois University awarded him an undergraduate degree in English.
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