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Mark is based in Edinburgh and joined abrdn in 2007. He is responsible for making investments across the private equity spectrum (Primaries, Secondaries and Co-investments) as well as having overall responsibility for abrdn’s Primary Investment business. Mark is a member of abrdn’s Private Equity Operating Committee and Investment Committee. Mark is also a senior member of the management team of FTSE 250 abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust plc (FTSE: APEO). He also sits on the Advisory Boards of a number of leading private equity funds.
Prior to the merger that created abrdn in 2017, Mark was a Partner and Head of Primary Investments at SL Capital Partners where he joined in 2007. Before this, Mark spent seven years working as a lead adviser in the corporate finance teams of EY and KPMG, focusing principally on buyouts.
Mark is a Chartered Accountant and has BA (Joint Honours) degrees in Accounting and Economics
from the University of Strathclyde. Mark is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities &
Investment.