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The Honorable Mark Douglas Cowan currently serves as the CEO of Potomac International Partners, Inc. Cowan was born on 1949 in Duluth, Minnesota. He is a graduate of The University of Minnesota and the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America. He draws on more than 35 years’ experience working on complex domestic and international public policy issues as counsel for a broad range of clients. He advises corporations, government entities, and foreign sovereigns on a wide array of business, regulatory, and trade issues. Mr. Cowan held presidential appointments in three administrations. During the first Reagan administration, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health until his appointment as Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Secretary of Labor in 1982. Later, President George H.W. Bush appointed him as a Commissioner on the National Commission on Employment Policy. President George W. Bush appointed him as a Member of the President’s Council on the 21st Century Work Force. Mr. Cowan also served as a member of the Trump transition team. While serving in the U.S. Air Force, Captain Cowan flew in the back seat of the F-101 fighter interceptor. Cowan, a lawyer, has headed three companies of his own, been a senior partner at Patton Boggs, LLP, an AM Law 100 firm, wherein he both created and directed the firm’s Business Development Department and effort for over 500 lawyers. Having founded The Jefferson Group in 1987, Mr. Cowan grew that public affairs firm to become the second largest in its class in just six years. Thereafter, he was Vice Chairman of Cassidy & Associates, Washington’s largest public affairs company, C.E.O. of the Columbus Group, C.E.O. of Newmyer Associates and a Senior Vice President at Hill and Knowlton, one of the world’s largest public relations firms, where he counseled numerous domestic and international clients. Mr. Cowan currently resides outside of Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Laura, from where he commutes to his offices in the District of Columbia and Virginia. Together, they have a daughter; Mattie Amagai; a son, Travis Cowan; and a grandson, Teddy.