A History and Politics graduate who has spent over twenty years in the recruitment industry, Mark formed Astralis with Steve O’Brien in 1999 having previously acted as Board Director and head of the HR Practice of a major consultancy.
Historically, whilst his experience covers multi-functional recruitment at all levels, in more recent years there has been an increasingly strong focus towards Human Resources across a range of vertical market sectors and encompassing both generalist and specialist roles, predominantly at senior management and director level. Particular areas of expertise lie in the fields of change management, employee relations and reward strategy whilst, geographically, assignments have been conducted in Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and the Caribbean as well as the UK.
Internally Mark has responsibility for both corporate marketing strategy and the development of key alliances with other organisations as well as increasing participation in and contribution to industry leading initiatives.
Mark lives in rural Hertfordshire and has extensive interests, which include football (a passionate supporter of both Hereford United and England), tennis and rugby
