Mark is a career media and communications expert with extensive experience in strategic corporate communications, crisis management, media relations and training. Having spent the last 6 years in Singapore, he oversees Klareco’s portfolio of corporate and financial clients. Key clients have included: Noble Group, Neptune Orient Lines, Lazada Group, Felda Global Ventures, Baker & McKenzie, Iskandar Investment Berhad, Merlin Entertainments, SingPost and SingTel.
Mark is also the creator of Klareco’s market leading crisis, media and presentation workshops. He works in partnership with XL Group to provide crisis preparation and response to clients, and he also works in affiliation with Petrofac to deliver media training for their live crisis training facility.
Mark’s media expertise is grounded in first-hand knowledge. He is a former BBC News Correspondent with more than 10 years of national and international journalism experience in Asia and Europe. During his career he reported on issues and crisis including the troubled opening of Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 and the Japanese tsunami of 2011.
He has covered murders, plane crashes, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, riots and royal visits. Mark brings nearly 6 years of crisis communication and media training experience to his current role, advising senior management on issues across the region.
Mark graduated from the University of Oxford with an MA in English Language and Literature. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from City University, London.
