Mark joined PACP in 2021 and his focus areas are:

• Multiple verticals, combining his own expertise and that of UK based partners.
• Specific experience in; SaaS, energy Transition and Sustainability.
• Geographic focus on Europe.
• Acting as a ‘bridge’ between the Irish and UK markets, connecting Irish SME’s and funders to the UK and vice versa.

Mark is a very experienced executive, having spent most of his career with Toyota in Ireland; his two most recent roles being Commercial Director and Director of Strategy, Innovation & Corporate Affairs.

He combines a background of successful commercial management in a hyper competitive marketplace, with experience of delivering significant, sustainability focussed, change programmes.

He also has much experience of building stakeholder communities across the commercial and policymaking worlds.

In the mobility field, he led the formation of Toyota’s first car share operation in Europe, which is successful and growing.

In 2019, Mark led the formation of Hydrogen Mobility Ireland, an organisation which has delivered a full roadmap for the introduction of hydrogen fuel cell transport and is now focused on deployment; click here to read more.

His most important attribute is the ability to work with people, to influence and to build relationships. Also, to connect people from disparate backgrounds and with varying approaches.

In 2022, Mark became the first ‘Entrepreneur & Investor in Residence’ at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College, London.

Also in 2022, Mark joined the Business Development team, on a part time basis, at the UK based hydrogen fuel start-up, Element 2 Ltd; a company focussed on supplying green hydrogen as a fuel for commercial vehicles.

Mark holds an MSc in Business Practice from The Irish Management Institute/University College Cork.