Mark is a passionate technologist who’s spent too much time owning a P&L to really call himself an engineer. Innovative technology (in all its various flavours) has been the common backbone for Mark’s career through mission critical delivery to innovation acceleration, global portfolio optimisation to fund raising, acquisition selection to ground-up organisation building.

Mark is the Chief Technical Advisor EMEA at Splunk. He helps Executive teams and international policy makers understand the seismic effect that ‘data-driven’ approaches can achieve and to get the right blend of enabling technology, expertise, empowering guidance, and practical governance to deliver beneficial change.


Before joining Splunk Mark co-founded AMPLYFI. As CTO he created and scaled the AI-start-up’s proprietary hybrid DL-NLP deep web analytics technology into their current products, which are used across many sectors including finance, manufacturing, FMCG and research.

He has also worked as Head of Business Planning and Major Programmes at British Telecom (BT) spanning B2B services, consumer products and network evolution. Commercialised a series of novel integrated hardware/software solutions in the energy sector for companies including Chevron, BP, Shell, and International and EU joint projects. Mark spent the first decade of his career as a British Army Engineering Officer, specialising in new technology capability introduction, strategic planning and spending time in hot and cold places that would not be on most people’s bucket-list.