Mike Mann is the founder and chairman of Grassroots.org (501c3), a global network providing free services to non-profits and promoting social action. He also founded and manages Make Change! Trust, a charitable fund that supports select 501c3 organizations. Visit http://grassroots.org/ and http://makechangetrust.org/ for more information about these organizations.

Mike is the founder of successful, active, for-profit corporations such as Phone.com, SEO.com, Skateboards.com, DomainMarket.com, Yield Software, BrowserMedia, Graphics.net and others. In many cases, his companies exchange resources, talent and technologies in their never-ending quest to deliver innovative, profitable digital products and services. In 1994, he founded Internet Interstate, which he sold to Verio Inc. in 1997.

In 1998, he founded BuyDomains.com (currently owned by NameMedia), the world’s largest secondary market for domain names and sold majority interest to Highland Capital and Summit Partners in 2005, along with the “Seeq.com” search engine portal. Visit http://buydomains.com/ for more information about this project.

Between 1998 and 2001, Mike served as the founding Chairman of the non-profit ByteBack.org, which is an innovator in operating free computer and job training centers serving inner-city communities.

Mike is also the author of Make Millions and Make Change!, a book which focuses on explaining how we can better serve society by making money. For more information about the book, visit http://www.mikemann.com/ and for more information about Mike Mann’s activity, visit http://www.makemillions.com/