Mark Bao (formerly Steven Bao) is a 16-year-old student and technology and advertising entrepreneur, and is the President & CEO of Avecora, based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is a Chinese immigrant, born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, in 1992.

He has been starting businesses since 2007. Since then, he has started 8 startups in the web area.

Mark is primarily working as President & CEO at Avecora. Avecora is building next-generation mobile devices, as well as Avecora Network, the ubiquitous technology network. Its central idea is The Avecora Vision: to integrate all technology with one another, as well as with the social graph.

Recently, he is the co-founder of Ramamia, a utility that helps you keep in touch with your family via simple and private sharing of photos, messages, events, and websites, with birthday reminders, comments, and more.

He is also currently working as co-founder at TickrTalk, a site that lets you keep up with your favourite sports teams, send updates about the game, and follow fellow fans.

He also recently founded Classleaf, a web presence and academic platform for middle schools, high schools, and colleges.

In the past, he's spoken at Gnomedex 2008, and organized the Facebook Developer meetups in Boston, as well as the Facebook Developer Garage Boston.

Mark is inspired by technology, innovation, virtual reality, and the integration of devices with each other and the social layer.

Let's connect. Email me or call me at 617.395.5633.

Past work

He has been founding startups for two years, starting with the January 2007 founding of DebateWare.com, an enterprise event management system for debate organisations, started in his freshman year in high school, with then-senior Ryan Speers.

Mark has also developed several Facebook apps, one of which was sold to Lee Lorenzen at Altura Ventures. Afterwards, with two marketing partners, he developed the application Facebook Idol, which was sold to a private investor in October 2007.

He was is the owner of AdSocial (formerly Cadmium), the targeted social application advertising network available for developers of social applications and advertisers, that extends the social advertising graph to the web, by aggregating social network profile information and targeting advertisements around the web.

Personal

He immigrated to the United States at the age of four in 1997, first to Pennsylvania, then New Jersey, and lastly Massachusetts.