Accomplished strategic advisor and board-level facilitator with nearly 30 years’ experience spanning security, law enforcement, intelligence, risk, ESG, and capital readiness. Specialist in board/sovereign advisory, complex cross-border investigations, and capital facilitation. Lead curriculum architect and lecturer for the UAE Ministry of Interior’s Financial & Economic Intelligence Programme (Rabdan Academy). Appointed as an official exam and guide writer for ACAMS, contributing to the development of global anti-financial crime and risk frameworks and certification standards. Structured/facilitated USD 1B+ in capital mandate introductions, briefed boards/CXOs managing USD 500B+ in assets and delivered projects for more than 70 organisations in security, risk, intelligence, and corporate sectors across APAC, EU, LAC, MENA, & The UK. He has owned P&L and POA at commercial MNC’s, as well as forming, owning, and operating his own businesses, and so is fully conversant with business, as well as geopolitics and national strategy.

Mark is the Chair of INTERSEC Security Leaders Summit, and a judge for the INTERSEC, ICA, and Regulation Asia Annual Awards. He is frequently keynote at high level events held by organisations such as ACAMS, ICA, TAPA, IISS, Rabdan Academy (UAE MOI – lead curriculum/lecturer), EMEA Business Group, Regulation Asia, UNODC, GI-TOC, World Resources Institute, to name just a few.

Career highlights include senior roles with marquee organisations – INTERPOL (Global law enforcement), the Metropolitan Police Service (Law enforcement), Hill & Associates (Asia security/intelligence consultancy), G4S (Formerly FTSE 250 pre-Allied acquisition), UNODC (UN Office on Drugs & Crime), and Thomson Reuters (NYSE/Nasdaq-listed, ~USD 90 B market cap); alongside advisory mandates with Rabdan Academy/UAE MOI, Abu Dhabi Police (Primary law enforcement agency for the Emirate), and direct strategic counsel to the principles of Adviseren (Capital raise and readiness), & Successo Ventures (Hedge Fund) among others.

Formally as a UK police officer, he was appointed as a certified, experienced, and qualified drugs expert witness by Her Majesty’s Court Service, delivering court-admissible evidence in hundreds of trials on manufacture, production, trafficking, sale, and money laundering techniques. He directed complex investigations into cross-border serious organised crime, financial crime, and laundering networks, operating across multiple jurisdictions and command directorates, and operated both covertly and overtly.