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

Prior to 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.

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.

Mark 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. He currently serves as a member of the board for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio; as a member of the board for LiveOn New York, and is a trustee of Macalester College’s Board of Trustees Emeritus in St. Paul, MN.

Mr. Lindsay joined the Livingston Group in 2008. At the Livingston Group Mark Lindsay employs his expertise in government relations and private sector management and communications to assist a wide variety of Livingston Group clients. Mr. Lindsay focuses primarily on the following Livingston Group practice areas: Health Care and Pharmaceuticals; International Relations/Business Development; and Financial Service and Tax.
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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 Bar.

erik dell
Erik Dell is Bell & Lindsay's senior associate. 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 currently attends the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She graduated from the University of California- Berkeley, where she double majored in Political Science with a focus in International Relations, and in Legal Studies. Her primary international relations interests lie in national security, human rights, and Southeast Asia. Iesha 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.