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Mark is a senior executive with extensive experience in operations management, acquisitions and integrations, IPO’s, strategic planning, investor and shareholder relations. 
Mark founded Paracon Holdings, an ICT staffing and solutions business, in 1995 and listed Paracon on the JSE four years later. Dimension Data became a strategic shareholder in early 2000. Mark was involved in many successful start-ups over the years, numerous local and international acquisitions including a 35% stake in Pune based Nihilent Technologies in 2006. He acquired and sold two tech companies in the USA and de-listed Paracon from the JSE in 2011, in a sale to Adcorp Holdings. Mark was responsible for the acquisition of Australian based Paxus from CSC in 2012 and led the acquisition and de-listing of the Kelly Group SA from the JSE. This resulted in the creation of TalentCRU, growing it into the largest MSP/RPO business in South Africa. Mark was interim CEO of the Adcorp group and then took the reigns as COO of the group where he set in motion the turnaround strategy which included the sale of Nihilent to Dimension Data PLC in 2017. Mark left Adcorp after the successful turnaround in March 2019 to focus on investments.