Mark is a chartered procurement professional and Procurement Act 2023 ‘Advanced Practitioner’ with 35 years’ private and public sector procurement and contract management experience.  His career includes twenty years in private practice within the construction industry as a chartered quantity surveyor and latterly a dispute resolution practitioner.  

A move to the public sector at the beginning of 2010 led to requalifying in public procurement law and practice, studying under Professor Sue Arrowsmith at the University of Nottingham, before achieving full MCIPS in 2018.  Initially working in local government procurement services, culminating in a Procurement Business Improvement managerial position, Mark joined Crescent Purchasing Consortium in 2019.  He returned to the coalface of delivering procurement services to clients before promotion into a newly created Learning & Development Lead role at the beginning of 2024. 

Mark’s remit is to develop procurement best practice within CPC and to support CPC’s wider membership with the knowledge and tools needed to instil this ethos across the education sector.