Laura Jones, Global Business Director, DDB

“I first met Mark in New York in 2012 when I was asked to lead the

ExxonMobil global team at DDB and Mark quickly became one of the most valuable members of my senior management team and has continued to be a good friend. 

Mark is incredibly resourceful and hard working and was always the person I could rely on to deliver, regardless of what was asked - and he was often given very, very challenging requests from our client. He proved to be calm under pressure and this also made him an excellent leader - keeping his team focused and upbeat even when deadlines were crazy.

I also relied on Mark's ability to develop longer term strategic ideas that kept our client's excited about the future and wanting to work with us - and he managed to do this as well as delivering multiple new product campaigns without once dropping the ball.

Mark worked with me in running the ExxonMobil businesses globally and he is therefore very aware of how to navigate different cultures successfully and also how to overcome the challenges of working with geographically diverse teams and clients - a very valuable asset for today's global companies.

Although Mark worked with me on the digital side of the ExxonMobil account, he is very experienced in all other communication channels, which meant he could see how multi-faceted campaigns needed to work together and support each other.

Mark is someone that adds value to whichever organisation he works with both commercially and culturally and he would be a wonderful asset to any company.”