Dr. Mark Ellis is a distinguished educator and scholar with over 25 years of experience in higher education. He has taught thousands of M.B.A., Ph.D. and J.D. students across the United States and internationally, including seven years instructing M.B.A. students from Saudi Arabia at a prominent State university.

Additionally, he has served as faculty in a Juris Doctor program at a prominent law school, recognized by the American Bar Association and featured in Princeton Review for its academic excellence. After graduating law school himself, Dr. Ellis passed one of the most difficult State Bar Exams in the nation on his very first attempt and coaches other recent law school graduates to prepare for the Bar Exam.

He holds the M.B.A., J.D., Ph.D., and a post-Juris Doctor LL.M. degree in Intellectual Property Law. His areas of expertise span business law, torts, contracts, criminal law, civil procedure, negotiable instruments and payment systems, corporate governance, business management, leadership, quantitative research methods, and decision science.

Teaching quantitative research methods, he has served as doctoral faculty and dissertation committee chair for numerous Ph.D., D.B.A., and Ed.D. students since 2007. He also serves as the content expert and course designer in those doctoral programs.

His Ph.D. work has been cited in multiple doctoral dissertations and academic journals, demonstrating his impact on these fields. As the managing partner of a firm that was established in 1994, he combines real-world business expertise with academic insight.

Actively involved in global relief efforts, he upholds and promotes Judeo-Christian principles in his work. He and his one and only wife have been married since 1989. They have three adult children, who are university graduates, working professionals, and collegiate athletes.