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 Mark is the Chief Executive (or Director) of The British Forces Foundation (registered charity 1075109) and its trading company, Forces Events Ltd.
Before that he was the Special Projects Director of Firmin & Sons in Birmingham for a short period after leaving the Army in 1999.
Mark’s Army service in The Queen’s Royal Lancer’s lasting 12 years took him on operations to Belize, Mozambique, Bosnia, and Cyprus. He also served in India, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Canada and UK. Before leaving the army Mark reached the rank of Major and was selected for Staff College.
Educated at Repton School, Loughborough University (BA (Hon) in Politics and History) and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
As Chief Executive of The British Forces Foundation Mark specialises in putting on large events that fund the charities entertainment projects. Many of these projects, which he is the Executive Producer of, have been televised and include the BBC 1 2000 Variety Christmas Show, BBC1 2002 ‘Falklands Bound’ and BBC1 2003 ‘Basra Bound’ and many live concerts for example Status Quo, Germany 2001.
Mark is also Director of The Combined Services Polo Association and CU2 Ltd (his own small events and PR company). He is an adviser to SSAFA and the Conservative Party on Foreign Affairs and Defence and Treasurer of the Think Tank ‘First Defence’. He is also Chairman of the Devizes Conservative Constituency Association.
Mark is passionate about sport and regularly enjoys skiing, polo and tennis all of which he represented the Army at. He is an enthusiastic but awful golfer. His other passions are watching football (supporting Arsenal), collecting first edition political autobiographies and early twentieth century novels.
Mark is married to Emma a very talented equestrian and has a daughter Emily (born 20/11/01). They live in Patney, Wiltshire.
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