Mark Hughes

Hughes is the marketing guru capturing the $300 million attention of eBay by literally putting Half.com on the map...convincing Halfway, Oregon (pop. 350)to rename itself to Half.com, Oregon.

eBay bought Half.com six months later for $300 million.

Time magazine called it "one of the greatest publicity coups" in history.

Hughes' marketing career spans PepsiCo's Pizza Hut, Pep Boys, AMSC (later XM Satellite Radio), and eBay.

He is the son of a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist.