Mark Elderkin (born September 27, 1963) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded

Gay.com Gay.com was a chat, personals, and social networking website catering to the LGBT community. The site was a digital brand of Here Media Inc. In addition to community features, the site featured LGBT-related news and features. As of September 2 ...

in 1994 with his husband Jeff O. Bennett. Elderkin served as President of

PlanetOut Inc. PlanetOut, Inc. is an online media company or entertainment company exclusively targeting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) demographic. Originally founded as an early internet-based media company by Tom Reilly in 1995, it oper ...

when the company went public in 2004. He retired from the company in 2006. He founde
Gay Ad Network
in 2007, which was named as one of th
Inc. 5000
fastest growing private companies in America. Elderkin was a child prodigy of the clarinet. He graduated from

Haas School of Business The Walter A. Haas School of Business, also known as Berkeley Haas, is the business school of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California. It was the first business school at a public university i ...

with an MBA and

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

with a BS in Systems Engineering. Elderkin lives in

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale () is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and largest city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth ...

with his husband Jeff and daughter Chloe.

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