About Mark
The route to the stage was not direct.
Mark started as a professional photographer, joined the Royal Navy, took a PhD in organisational behaviour at Cambridge and worked, briefly, as an economist — before spending thirty years as a strategy and transformation consultant, mostly in energy and utilities, at Accenture, Aon, Fujitsu, KPMG, A.T. Kearney and Capgemini.
At EY he was Senior Partner and Head of UK Data & Analytics, growing the practice from £2m to £15m and from 14 people to 125 in four years. He was the engagement partner behind the UK Government’s National Situation Centre — more than 1,200 datasets linked across government and industry so the country could anticipate the next crisis rather than react to the last one — and led enterprise-wide AI programmes for global brands including Estée Lauder.
Alongside all that: ten years as an Associate Fellow at Oxford’s Saïd Business School designing arts-based leadership programmes for senior executives; lecturing at Cambridge, Henley, Hult Ashridge, Cranfield and London Business School; and a parallel career as a competitive Latin American dancer that produced more than fifty titles, including two World Championships. He maintains the two careers taught him the same thing — a great performance is rehearsed, ensemble, and entirely about the audience.
Today Mark is co-founder of the QI Institute and Qi Ventures, a Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School, an Associate of Hult Ashridge Business School, a Futureworld keynote speaker and a board adviser to leaders trying to work out what AI actually means for their organisation, their culture and themselves. His conviction has not changed in thirty years: technical intelligence only pays when it is integrated with human intelligence.
- 2025 —Co-founder, QI Institute and Qi Ventures
- 2019 – 2024Senior Partner, Head of UK Data & Analytics, EYNational Situation Centre for No.10; AI transformation for Estée Lauder and RS Components
- 2017 —Visiting Fellow, Leadership & Strategy, Henley Business SchoolAssociate, Hult Ashridge Business School
- 2015 – 2019Vice President, Head of UK Insights & Data, Capgemini1,800 people across the UK and India
- 2009 – 2015Equity Partner, Head of UK Power & Utilities — KPMG, then A.T. Kearney
- 2003 – 2013Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
- 1994 – 2009Accenture · Acertus · Aon · FujitsuStrategy and transformation across global utilities markets
- EducationPhD Organisational Behaviour, Cambridge (Judge) · MA Management & Economics, Trinity College, Cambridge
