Mark Fleming

Distinguished Service Award
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Established in 1976 to honor alumni, staff, and friends for outstanding service or academic contributions that further the educational mission of the college

Mark Fleming

BS Physics ’70
Naperville, Ill.

Mark Fleming is the retired president of Strategies on Demand, L.L.C., a Naperville, Ill.-based company that provides market research and management consulting services in the printing and publishing industry. Prior to his work with Strategies on Demand, Fleming held a variety of executive positions in R.R. Donnelly & Sons Company and Duplex Products, Inc., two large printing and information services companies. He began his career in optoelectronics research first as a consultant at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory and subsequently as a research manager at 3M.

Fleming was named a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in 1970 and received an M.S. in applied physics from Harvard University in 1973, a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T. in 1980, and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University in 1991. He is a member of the honor societies Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma.

Fleming is a charter member and past chair of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Advisory Council; a charter member and the past chair of the Physics and Astronomy Council; founding editor of QUANTA, the Physics and Astronomy alumni newsletter; a member of ISU’s Order of the Knoll; and an ISU Alumni Association life member.