honorable Mark f​. Lindsay, President
Mark Lindsay is the President of Bell & Lindsay, Inc.

He employs his expertise in government relations and private sector management and communications to assist a wide variety of clients. His focus is Health Care and Pharmaceuticals, International Relations and Business Development, Financial Service and Tax, Veterans Affairs, Technology, and the Environment.

​Mr. Lindsay served in President Clinton’s White House as Assistant to the President for the Office of Management and Administration. As the Chief Operations, Chief Financial, and Chief Information Technology Officer, he led the White House’s largest office, with a staff of over two thousand five hundred, and managing a budget in excess of one billion dollars annually. He reported directly to the President and the President’s Chief of Staff. His areas of responsibility included the White House Military Office (Air Force One, The White House Communications Agency, the Medical Unit and Camp David), and running the White House Operations and the Executive Office of the President’s Office of Administration (finance, information systems, human resources, legal/appropriations and security). Mr. Lindsay managed the financing of Presidential political activities with Democratic organizations including the Democratic National Committee and its Chairman. President Clinton selected him to be the operational lead for the White House’s 2001 election transition preparation and execution.

Prior to his appointment to the White House, Mr. Lindsay served as senior legislative aid and counsel to Congressman Louis Stokes (D-OH). On behalf of Congressman Stokes, Mark worked closely with Democrats and the Congressional Black Caucus on a wide variety of business and economic issues. Significant activities included advising members of the South African Parliament who were responsible for the formulation of the new South African Constitution on United States Constitutional law and the political process. He worked with the Congressman in writing national urban environmental revitalization legislation, and he worked on several Congressional task forces addressing such issues as ethics, affirmative action, Congressional redistricting, welfare reform, technology transfer, economic development, and international human rights.

Before his work with Congressman Stokes, Mr. Lindsay was a litigator for Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis, MN and Schiff, Hardin & Waite in Chicago, IL. He performed general commercial, securities, and antitrust litigation. He assisted in the representation of significant business clients including for the  Chicago Board Options Exchange, American Express, Nuveen Investments and First Bank System. At Arter & Hadden in Washington, DC, he focused on Commercial, Securities, Antitrust, Products Liability, Mergers & Acquisitions, Government Contracting, Intellectual Property, and Employment law. 

While working with UnitedHealth Group, one of the world’s largest healthcare companies, Mr. Lindsay served in a number of senior positions, including President of the AARP Pharmacy Services Division and Vice President of Public Communications and Strategy. He coordinated all of the company’s worldwide contacts with the media as central spokesperson and communications leader, developing and expanding the company’s relationship with democratic and republican state, local and national public officials in all fifty states. He has participated in hundreds of media interviews for news organizations such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Week, Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, National Public Radio, ABC, CNN, CBS and NBC. Mark coordinated UnitedHealth Group's communications activities involving mergers and acquisitions, crisis management, new product development, marketing, customer service and government relations.

Mr. Lindsay was a member of Senator Hillary Clinton’s Minnesota Finance Committee for her 2008 Presidential campaign, and was responsible for Presidential transition activities for the Executive Office of the President in 2001 and 2008. He was the White House Office of Management and Administration agency review team leader for the Obama-Biden transition.

Mr. Lindsay graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He obtained a law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, graduated with a Masters degree with a concentration in International Affairs from Georgetown University, and graduated from the Advanced Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School. He is a member of the District of Columbia, American and National Bar Associations. He serves on the Case Western Reserve University School of Law Government Affairs Advisory Council, is a Macalester College’s Board of Trustees Emeritus member, 

Mr. Lindsay is a board member for the Truman National Security Project and the Truman Center for National Policy in Washington, DC; Childrens Hospital of Minnesota in Minneapolis; the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio; LiveOn New York in New York, NY; and the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger in New York. He is a corporate board member for Vivos Therapeutics; Live Wire Communications; U.S. Preventative Medicine, CereScan Corporation; and New Market Veterans.

erik dell
Erik Dell is a policy advisor with Bell & Lindsay. He holds dual U.K. and Australian citizenship, and he earned his B.A. in Language and Culture from the University College of London. He has studied Religion, Conflict and Peace, as well as Principles of Economics, at Harvard University. He attended some of his high school education in Dubai and he was an exchange student at the University of Montreal, studying advanced French. He additionally completed a Boston Consulting Group Open Access Strategy Consulting virtual program. He most recently provided policy analysis for clients with the 5464 & Company group in London, advising on tactical and strategic engagements for military and civilian public sector organizations, as well as conducting public policy, media and communications campaigns. 

iesha carter
Iesha Carter is an associate at Bell & Lindsay. She supports government relations, including research and analysis in international and political affairs. She received her master's degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, specializing in Security, Strategy, and Statecraft with a regional focus on Asia and China. She was a Washington, DC 2022 Rangel Scholar, where she furthered her knowledge of international relations. She was also a 2019 Horatio Alger National Scholar and a 2019 Avid Founder’s Scholar. 

Iesha navigates the intersection of politics, policy, and business across regions worldwide, with a focus on China and the Asia-Pacific. She brings experience in U.S. government relations, where, through two administrations, she has worked directly with federal agencies including the Department of Defense, Health & Human Services, and the State Department; and White House offices including the Office of Management and Budget and congressional staff on both sides of the aisle.  She helps manage government relations and geopolitical challenges across diverse markets, helping them navigate risk and opportunity in an increasingly complex global landscape.