Mark Agnew

Mark S. Agnew is the CEO and founder of Eyeglasses.com, a leader in the online consumer eyewear business. Since 1999, Agnew pioneered online retailing by being the first eyewear company with a virtual try-on application, earning two patents which were later sold to Luxottica Corporation.

Agnew has long been a consumer advocate, selling high-quality eyewear to customers for half of the price normally charged by optical stores. As an expert in the eyewear industry, he is the author of the Eyeglasses Buying Guide: How to Pay Less and Get More, which offers advice and information to all consumers of eyeglasses, offline and online.

Agnew is an outspoken critic of “Vision Benefits Insurance” plans and has appeared frequently in the media to expose how these plans are a bad deal for employees, and also raise the prices of eyewear across the country costing consumers billions of dollars annually in overpayments to providers.