Mark entered the profession in 1980 qualifying as a Chartered Company Secretary at British Aerospace plc, since which time, he has built a wealth of experience across companies with diverse domestic and international businesses. These include Guinness plc, Diageo plc, Xansa plc, Balfour Beatty plc, UBM plc and ReAssure Group, a regulated company in the financial services sector. Most recently, Mark has focused on conducting board performance reviews and providing corporate governance and company secretarial services to clients across the listed and non-listed sectors. With over 30 years of “in the boardroom” experience, Mark is an experienced Board evaluator, having advised Boards on value enhancing best Boardroom practices as well as corporate governance, stock exchange and company law matters more generally. Mark has been responsible for ensuring high standards of Board effectiveness and pragmatic governance arrangements for numerous companies in a wide range of industries. As well as having a deep knowledge of those topics traditionally within the remit of company secretaries, Mark has also developed a breadth of experience across the broader governance, regulatory and compliance (‘GRC’) landscape, having led company-wide GRC initiatives across multiple workstreams involving senior stakeholders. A Fellow of The Chartered Governance Institute (formerly ICSA) and a member of its Company Secretaries Forum for over 20 years, Mark has chaired its International Committee and been an active participant in his profession, contributing to the development of Board best practice guidance and as a contributor to the Institute’s formal responses to government consultations on corporate governance and other related matters. He has also been a member of the Companies Committee of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Mark is a graduate of the University of Warwick and is also a qualified flying instructor.