Mark has over 25 years of legal, regulatory, structuring and business development experience in Financial Services. He has held senior legal, compliance and product development executive roles in a number of firms in asset management (HSBC Alternatives, Skandia / Old Mutual Asset Management, Blackstone), credit and mortgage provision (Castle Trust Bank), and insurance (Phoenix Group, Ignis Asset Management). After qualifying as a barrister, Mark worked at Hogan Lovells in their Financial Services practice in London where he specialised in Alternative Funds.
Most recently, Mark worked in Blackstone’s Multi-Asset business unit in London supporting marketing to their EMEA clients of multi-asset hedge fund portfolios, multi-strategy & single strategy offering (mainly Structured Risk Transfers). He was head of legal of Ignis (the asset management business of the Phoenix Group) where he was responsible for setting up a range of Hedge Fund, CLO, Leveraged Loan, Property & Private Equity funds. He was a founding member of the executive team of Castle Trust, a new UK mortgage lending business backed US Private Equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co where he acted as General Counsel and Compliance Officer.
He holds a BA (Hons) & Master of Arts in Economics from Cambridge University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Law and was called to the Bar of England & Wales (Inner Temple) as a Barrister-at-Law. He lives in London with his two sons and a daughter.
