Mark Everson

In the Reagan Administration, Everson held foreign policy and law enforcement positions at the US Information Agency and the Department of Justice. At USIA, Everson worked on sensitive public diplomacy projects, including INF deployment and the establishment of Radio Marti. At DOJ, Attorney General Ed Meese appointed Everson to Deputy Commissioner at the INS, where he supervised all agency operations, including the Border Patrol and inspectors at the ports of entry. After leaving government in July 1988 Mark joined American National Can, at the time the world’s largest packaging company. Shortly after he joined the company it was acquired by Pechiney, which was then the largest aluminum producer in Europe. Over a span of ten years at American National/Pechiney Mark was plant manager of the company’s unionized, continuous operation beverage can factory on the south side of Chicago; managing director of the can manufacturing subsidiary in Turkey; vice president of the glass container division based in Indiana; and finally vice president and then senior vice president of Pechiney in Paris. Mark left Pechiney in the fall of 1998, moving to Dallas to join LSG SkyChefs, the world’s largest airline catering company. At SkyChefs he joined the business as a vice president and later became Group Vice President Finance. In the second Bush Administration, Everson was Deputy Director for Management at OMB and then Commissioner of the IRS, which achieved record service and enforcement results under his leadership. Everson has state government experience as well, having served in the cabinet of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. Under Daniels, he ran Indiana’s unemployment insurance and job training programs. As deputy director Mark was a member of the small working group which developed the proposal put forth by the president in June 2002 to create the Department of Homeland Security. In January 2003 the president nominated Mark to be the 46th Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He served as IRS Commissioner from May 2003 through May 2007. During 2008 Mark worked with Dynamis, a healthcare consulting firm which was attempting to establish primary care clinics and nursing academies in the lower ninth and other communities in New Orleans then recovering from Hurricane Katrina. In January 2009 Mark moved to Indianapolis and joined the cabinet of his former boss at OMB, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. Mark became the commissioner of the Indiana Department of Administration and in 2010 the commissioner of the Department of Workforce Development (DWD), the agency which oversaw the state’s unemployment insurance, workforce training and adult education programs. Everson was the CEO of the American Red Cross and is currently Vice Chairman of alliantgroup, a leading provider of specialty tax services for small and mid-sized businesses. Everson is a graduate of Yale and the NYU Stern School of Business. Mark’s marriage ended in divorce in 2008. He has four children and lives in Mississippi.