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Mark Orcutt
President & CEO
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Mark Orcutt is a policy advocate, writer, and operations leader with a decade of experience in communications and nonprofit administration. He is a Northern California native who started his career working on statewide governance reform at California Forward. He went on to work as Field Director for an East Bay State Assembly campaign and as Campaign Manager for a ballot measure that led to the revitalization of San Francisco’s historic Pier 70 waterfront.
Mark joined the East Bay Leadership Council and Contra Costa Economic Partnership in 2015. Over the past eight years, his accomplishments have included driving significant growth in membership revenue, authoring strategic policy communications, writing and designing weekly newsletters, managing media relations, and producing engaging in-person and virtual events.
He has also served as the lead staff for the East Bay Leadership Council’s political candidate training program which has helped more than a dozen people win elected office in just five years. Mark is also responsible for launching and continuing to grow a new nonprofit board match program called Engage East Bay.
He graduated summa cum laude from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in Political Science. He is passionate about addressing housing affordability and ensuring local students capitalize on the opportunities provided by a thriving East Bay economy. Mark lives in Walnut Creek with his wife Elizabeth.
