Mark W. Heising

Managing Director, Medley Partners

Mark Heising is a managing director of Medley Partners in Palo Alto, CA. He founded the firm in 2004. Previously he was the president of VLSI Cores, which designs and licenses cryptographic integrated circuits. Mark held various positions at Quickturn Design Systems, Cylink and Proximity Designs. He holds six U.S. Patents in cryptography, compression and data communications. Mark currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Bipartisan Policy Center Advocacy Network and the Advisory Board to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Mark earned a BS in Physics and a MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley.


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