Prior to joining the Company in January 2022 as Chief Risk Officer, Mark was an Associate Director on the risk team  at Waystone Management Company (IE) Ltd reporting directly to the Chief Risk Officer. He previously held the role of Chief Risk Officer (PCF-14) in Waystone Investment Management (IE) Limited, a MiFID regulated firm, since July 2021.

Mark joined the risk management team within Waystone/DMS Governance in October 2017 where he was a member of the Risk Committee and also managed a team of Risk Analysts. In this role, he took responsibility for the production of Risk Oversights for both AIF funds and UCITS funds with a broad range of investment strategies and instruments. This involved the management of the data inputs from central administrators to final investment restriction monitoring, risk analytic production, report review and escalation. He had an active role in various projects including the full migration of internal risk system to an acquired risk system. Mark was also responsible for Annex IV Regulatory Reporting for these funds as well as FormPF, CPO,S olvency II and Open Protocol reports.

Previously he worked as a Risk Analyst in State Street/International Fund Services (Ireland) Ltd. Here he managed a team of analysts accountable for the production of Open Protocol reports for a range of hedge fund clients. Prior to that he was a Consultant for First Derivatives.

Mark graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance (Bsc Economics and Finance) degree and a first class honours Masters of Quantitative Finance (Msc Quantitative Finance). Mark is a PRM holder since 2013.