A Civil Engineer with a track record in senior offshore engineering management, Mark joined the J Ray McDermott company in 1977 for service on Esso’s Tuna/Mackerel project in Bass Strait. During the 14 years of technically challenging work that followed, Mark held senior positions with the company in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai and Saudi Arabia. Still with McDermott, but returning to Australia, he then worked on new projects in Bass Strait
and, finally, the Woodside North Rankin A and Goodwyn A platforms on the North West Shelf in Western Australia. In 1991, Mark joined Clough Offshore
as Project Manager of a number of North West Shelf projects. Duties in Thailand, China and Indonesia followed, and by 1993 he was Operations/Project
Manager for BHP’s Griffin project. In 1994, Mark became Managing Director of Clough Offshore. In 1997, Mark joined the Board of Clough Engineering as an Executive Director, retiring and becoming a shareholder and Director of Mermaid Marine in 2000.