Mark Elderkin
Mark Elderkin (born September 27, 1963) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Gay.com in 1994 with his husband Jeff O. Bennett. Elderkin served as President of PlanetOut Inc. when the company went public in 2004. He retired from the company in 2006. He founded Gay Ad Network  in 2007, which was named as one of the Inc. 5000 fastest growing private companies in America. Elderkin was a child prodigy of the clarinet. He graduated from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business with an MBA and Boston University with a BS in Systems Engineering. He has served on the Board of GLAAD and mentors young entrepreneurs. Elderkin lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and West Hollywood, California with his husband Jeff Bennett. His daughter Chloe Bennett Elderkin is a pre-med student at University of Southern California. References

Boston University College of Engineering alumni
American LGBT businesspeople
1963 births
Living people
Haas School of Business alumni
LGBT people from Florida
American company founders
American technology chief executives