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.

Testimonial Case Study from Darrah Lynch, CEO of Uccello Designs:

In 2021/2, we were at a crossroads with our development of Uccello. Sales were good and growing. We were selling through a network of resellers and online, and had expanded from the Australian market to gaining a strong foothold in the UK and in other European countries.

The next growth phase needed some clear thinking around the approach to take, such as to continue to develop our D2C channel or to focus on building a network of branded retailers.

We had engaged with designers and specialists in the assisted living field, on the development of new and complementary products that would allow us to build our brand and accelerate growth. In turn, such a change would require the availability of external capital which would require the partners in the business to be fully aligned in our approach.

Through the New Frontiers programme at TUS (Technical University of Shannon), we engaged Mark Teevan of Prime Advantage Capital Partners to help is to properly consider the options and develop both strategy and implementation plans.

After a series of workshops, a certain amount of’homework’ and a lot of straight talking, the way forward became clear to us.

We decided not to raise capital for developing the business, but to seek an advantageous exit. 

Mark was very clear in the process, listened to all, pushed back when necessary and generally guided us to a position where the partners could make a clear decision without him influencing it.

The job was to paint a very clear picture of the options and of what would be involved in following through with each of them and where they could lead to.

While Mark had not worked with an exactly similar set of challenges before this, his methodology made that unimportant as it was us, the partners, who were leading the conversation.

Subsequently, the partners managed the successful sale of the business.

I am very happy to recommend Mark for any project that involves guiding high level strategy development and setting the direction of travel of a business.

Clearly it would have been to his benefit to have us raise investment finance, but that was never a consideration.”