Mark P. Mills

Mark P. Mills, a physicist, is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow, a faculty fellow at Northwestern University, and partner in Montrose Lane, an energy-tech venture fund. He is author of Digital Cathedrals and Work in the Age of Robots, and he is coauthor of The Bottomless Well. He served as chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in 2007. Earlier, Mills coauthored a successful tech investment newsletter, the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report, and prior to that he served in the Reagan White House Science Office and worked for a number of firms in the commercial nuclear industry. He began his career as an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics at the dawn of the semiconductor revolution, earning several patents while working at Bell Northern Research (Canada's Bell Labs) and at RCA's microprocessor factory in New Jersey. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Honors, in physics from Queen's University, Canada.