OVERVIEW

Mark is an experienced, resilient and pragmatic business leader with considerable experience across a range of disciplines. He is a straightforward individual, confident and will convey his enthusiasm in a manner that engages others. He is an experienced and successful executive coach.

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CAREER HISTORY

Mark’s commercial background is in financial services. For 30 years he was with Lloyds Banking Group holding a range of executive roles including CEO of the UK private bank, sitting on the UK retail bank board. He had responsibility for the UK branch network and, reporting to the main board, ran the global groupwide integration programme merging Lloyds Bank and TSB. He had two years on secondment at the Bank of England working on banking supervision during the post BCCI crisis. On leaving Lloyds in 2009 Mark joined Syndicate Asset Management PLC becoming Group CEO, delivering a significant turnaround in business performance.

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Since 2012 Mark has run his own consultancy business working with a range of organisations. He has designed and delivered a range of assignments focussing on C-suite effectiveness and mentoring. He has worked with a range of organisations. He sits on the Advisory Board at GoBeyond Partners.

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APPROACH

Mark brings to all his interventions a “real world/common sense” approach to executive life. Recent engagements have focussed on business development activities supporting clients to enter new markets and build new senior client relationships.

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QUALIFICATIONS

Mark is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He has attended the “Driving Organic Top-Line Growth” programme at the Kellogg Institute, Northwestern University, Illinois. He has a BA (Hons) degree in geography, is a past delegate of the Cabinet Office Top Management Programme, been media trained by the BBC and has attended Institute of Directors programmes on board governance and the role of the chairman.