Mark has significant experience in the financial services area having worked in companies involved in the banking, leasing and SME lending areas. Mark originally trained as an engineer and also qualified as a chartered accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He was Managing Director of DZ BANK Ireland plc for 17 years, a banking subsidiary of the German DZ Bank Group, having initially served as CFO and CRO of the company . Mark also acts as a non-executive director on a number of Irish companies in the financial sector.