Mark joins Kindred to progress its ambition to bring more property into social economy ownership through Hold Co, part of the Liverpool City Region Social Investment Pathfinder. He brings 30 years’ experience focusing on ‘people, place and property’, including four years’ experience working in Abu Dhabi, developing a new port district ‘MiZa’ for creative, arts and cultural industries. Beforehand, Mark spent 12 years establishing and building Baltic Creative CIC in Liverpool. He also jointly founded and chaired the Baltic Triangle Area CIC for eight years, set up to establish the Baltic Triangle area as a destination for creativity, arts and culture.

Under his leadership, Baltic Creative CIC became an exemplar sector development business and commercial property hub, recognised nationally and internationally for its support of the creative and digital sectors. In Abu Dhabi, Mark demonstrated his skill for community building, leading ‘MiZa’ from 2022-25, establishing the vision and developing and on-boarding a three-phase, ten year masterplan. He delivered a £240m mixed use first phase, supporting the growth of the creative, digital, arts and culture sectors in this new, reimagined Port District.

With a background spanning commercial and residential property acquisition, development, maintenance and management, Mark understands that property – in all its forms – is a means to an end in community building. Mark is supporting Kindred Hold Co to connect with public and private property owners and developers across the city region to bring underutilised assets into social economy ownership, supporting the growth and development of social economy clusters.