Mark has a PhD in Marketing and spent 25 years working as a marketing professor. He was an Assistant Professor at London Business School and the University of Minnesota, an Associate Professor and then Adjunct Professor at Melbourne Business School, and Visiting Professor at MIT Sloan and SMU. His MBA teaching won a ton of prizes including best teacher at LBS, MIT & MBS.
Mark worked as a global brand consultant for clients that include Baxter, Loewe, McKinsey, Subaru, Donna Karan, Westpac, Shiseido, Flight Centre, Johnson & Johnson, De Beers, Sephora, Benefit, Amgen, Ericsson, Jurlique, Cloudy Bay and WD40. For thirteen years – from 2002 to 2015 – he served as the in-house professor for LVMH – the world’s largest luxury group – working in Paris with senior executives from brands like Louis Vuitton, Dom Perignon and Hennessy.
Mark also writes a weekly column for Marketing Week. On three occasions he won the Business Columnist of the Year at the PPA Press Awards, the highest award for magazine journalism in the UK. He was also the British Society of Magazine Editors Business Columnist of the Year in 2018. His more scholarly publications include articles in the Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Advertising and the Journal of Consumer Research.