Mark Grider
Partner and Chair of the Crisis Management Litigation and Government Response Group
Brown Rudnick LLP
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Background
Mark Grider is an executive leader and former Deputy Associate Attorney General with over 20 years of risk management and regulatory experience in Washington, D.C. Mark is currently a Senior Partner and Chair of the Crisis Management Litigation and Government Response Group at Brown Rudnick LLP.
Executive Leadership, Board Governance & ESG Expertise
Mark brings visionary leadership, business acumen, and an extensive regulatory background to company executives and their boards. Mark also provides deep corporate governance experience; Mark educates and advises executives and their board of directors on increasingly important environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) matters. Mark understands the magnitude of shareholder engagement and supports boards in their implementation of improved ESG practices to enhance long-term asset value. Mark has also worked closely with executives on matters related to shareholder activism.
Regulatory Leadership
As a former Deputy Compliance Officer for a Fortune 500 company, Mark has proven success with corporate compliance teambuilding and navigating regulatory hurdles; in his former role, Mark created and led multiple regulatory groups to identify and address potential risks to the company and was key in the enhancement of a compliance database. While Mark’s career has strong roots in regulatory compliance, he also understands business and stays current on the newest issues facing companies today. Mark recently obtained a Leading with Finance Certification from Harvard Business School.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Mark is a leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and knows the steps boards must take to achieve their DEI targets to promote sustainability and deliver long-term value in this changing economy and business landscape. Mark is a member of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) and serves on the MCCA G-TEC Advisory Council for Technology where he addresses diversity and equity in the tech industry.
Cybersecurity and Privacy
Mark has worked on major cyber and privacy issues both in the federal government and for private companies and has a real understanding of the technology, cybersecurity and privacy issues facing companies today. Mark is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and is receiving his certificate in information privacy to better assist companies with the increasing risks surrounding companies and privacy.
Career Experience
Mark most recently served as a Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Justice Department, where his portfolio included criminal matters relating to the Antitrust Division, Civil Division, the Consumer Protection Branch, Environment and Natural Resources Division and the Tax Division. Mark is a subject matter expert on the False Claims Act, healthcare fraud, the opioid crisis, and competition and consumer harm in the online marketplace. Mark liaised on policy initiatives relating to elder fraud and financial exploitation, criminal antitrust procurement collusion and COVID-19 pandemic issues. Between early 2019 and September 2020, Mark assisted on congressional oversight and investigations and coordinated responses to related litigation, FOIA requests, COVID-19 pandemic response matters, and Inspector General investigations.
Prior to this role, Mark served as Senior Associate Counsel and Special Assistant to the President in the Office of the White House Counsel, advising White House Counsel and senior administration officials on broad oversight and regulatory matters involving the White House, Health and Human Services, and federal agencies, contributing special expertise on health care regulatory and litigation matters and science and technology oversight and policy issues.
After his tenure as a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, Mark moved to the DOJ’s Office of the Deputy Attorney General, where he served as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General and advised on operational and policy issues involving computer crime, intellectual property, health care fraud, pharmaceutical diversion, narcotics abuse and trafficking, death penalty review, and computer forensics matters. He also served as Special Counsel for Health Care Fraud and executive director of the DOJ’s Intellectual Property (IP) Task Force, where he developed strategic initiatives and metrics to monitor health care fraud, waste, and abuse efforts as well as corporate counterfeit and IP theft detection.
Mark has extensive congressional investigative experience on Capitol Hill in both the House and Senate. Mark was deputy general counsel for Chairman Trey Gowdy on a House Select Committee and was a legislative assistant to former Senator John Ashcroft from Mark’s home state of Missouri.
Mark served as the deputy general counsel to the Special Inspector General of Iraq Reconstruction, a role in which he oversaw civil and criminal litigation pertaining to procurement fraud and false claims act matters involving the more than $10 billion of government funds appropriated for Iraq reconstruction.
Education and Other Credentials
- Harvard Business School, Leading with Finance Online Certification
- University of Missouri School of Law, J.D.
- Thurgood Marshall Scholar; CALI Excellence for the Future Award
- Truman State University, B.A.
- Magna Cum Laude; Dean’s List; President’s Honorary Scholarship; NCAA Academic All- Conference Scholar
- Admitted to Practice: Supreme Court of the United States; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; Missouri Bar; D.C. Bar
- Active Security Clearances: Top Secret/SCI is renewable, if needed
