Mark McDonough is the president of AstroDatabank Company and owner of AstrologySoftwareShop.com, an easy-to-use website that helps people find the best astrology software and supports the programming and research of AstroDatabank. AstrologySoftwareShop.com is the largest distributor of astrology software.

An enthusiast of astrology from an early age, Mark wrote his first astrology software at Vassar College on an IBM 360 mainframe with 32K of memory in 1976 while majoring in "Relating Eastern Spirituality to Western Profane Consciousness." In 1982 he matriculated at MIT's Sloan School of Business. While studying for his MBA, he became so excited about an interface for making databases powerful and easy to use that he started a company to make one. He sold the product to the world's largest supplier of microcomputer databases and it was sold around the world in 11 languages.

Prior to his current work, Mark worked in the computer software industry as a software designer and marketer, and he was a marriage and family therapist specializing in home-based family and individual therapy for indigent clients. Today, in addition to being the president of AstroDatabank Company, Mark serves on the Board of Directors of ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research,) and he is Research Director for the Boston chapter of NCGR (National Council for Geocosmic Research.) Mark is helping Time Dollar USA with the development and execution of a business plan. He and his colleagues are designing an internet-based software to facilitate the exchange of Time Dollars that was introduced at the Third International Time Banking Congress in August 2004.