Profile
Mark Tresnowski
Senior Advisor, Former Managing Director & General Counsel, Madison Dearborn Partners
Mark is Senior Advisor and former Managing Director and General Counsel at Madison Dearborn Partners LLC., a leading private equity firm. He also serves as President of the Board of Directors of The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine; trustee and member of the executive committee of Brightpoint (formerly Children’s Home & Aid) in Chicago; and member of the Board of Directors and former Chairman of the American Investment Council in Washington DC.
Prior to joining Madison Dearborn, Mark was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP. Mark served as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission Investor Advisory Committee. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Nuveen Investments and as a member of the Board of Directors of Court Theatre.
Mark is a recognized leader in private equity industry having served as Chairman of the industry trade association, the American Investment Council, member of the Private Equity Leadership Network and co-founder of the Private Equity General Counsel Network.
He is the author of numerous articles on legal issues relating to mergers and acquisitions and private equity as well as co-author of a book on high yield offerings. He has repeatedly been selected for inclusion in Illinois Super Lawyers
Mark earned his undergraduate degree at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BA in psychology and is perhaps the only psychology major to also pass the CPA exam. Mark then attended the University of Virginia School of Law where he was an editor of the Virginia Law Review. Mark is also a graduate of the University of Chicago Graham School where he earned a Master of Liberal Arts (Thesis - Infinite Jest, Infant Adults & the True Self: A Winnicottian Analysis of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest).
Mark is married to Rita Tresnowski, a clinical psychologist. The live in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago and have four grown children and five grandchildren. Mark is an avid woodworker with a woodworking studio near his home in Chicago.