Mark has spent over 37 years in senior roles in Marketing, Communications and Customer Relationship Management in a variety of high-profile private and public sector organisations worldwide.

In his early years he was Marketing Director for Principality Building Society in Wales and Head of Customer Management for Royal & Sun Alliance (responsible for leading Customer Management for the launch of MORETH>N), before running his own international Customer Management consultancy, helping over 30 companies worldwide to develop effective customer management practices.

He was instrumental in setting up Confused.com, before taking up a senior interim management career with organisations such as Open University, Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, Yell Group Plc, British Airways and Barnardos.

He joined the Higher Education sector in 2009 and has been in senior Marketing, Communications and Student Recruitment Director roles for City University London, the University of West London, University of Bradford, Swansea University, and the University of Law. In May 2022 he was appointed to the University Executive Team as Director of Marketing, Communications and Recruitment for ARU Anglia Ruskin University.

He is a member of CASE Europe UK and Ireland Cabinet, is a Governor of Luminate Education Group and Chair of the University Centre Leeds Board. He is a campaigner for equality, diversity and inclusion and is an ambassador for AWLO (African Women in Leadership Organisation) and the White Ribbon campaign.

Mark also sits on the Volunteer Executive Committee for CASE Europe Universities Marketing Forum (UMF), having previously been Chair for five and a half years, stepping down in November 2024.

He was previously on the Advisory Board for Bradford Literature Festival and Board member of Bradford UNESCO City of Film.

Kenon is Deputy Director of Marketing at University of Nottingham. He has held digital and recruitment roles in the International Development Office and has a keen interest in all things digital and content marketing, and how digital tools impacts on organisational culture and behaviour.

As a music graduate, Kenon has previously worked in the Arts sector and was involved in a number of widening participation arts projects and outreach work to help diversify participation in the arts.

Born and raised in the Welsh Valleys, he is 1st generation Chinese and was involved in the Race Equality Charter assessment team at Swansea. Kenon was also the inaugural recipient of the CASE Europe Emerging Marketing and Communication Professional Award.

Ben joined LSE in February 2018. Ben serves as one of nine members of the university’s leadership team, is Chair of LSE’s International Strategy Board and has strategic oversight for philanthropy, alumni engagement, corporate engagement, international strategy, and global academic partnerships, and leads on the most significant philanthropic and partnership opportunities for LSE, travelling extensively overseas. Since joining LSE, Ben has created and overseen the launch and development of LSE’s Shaping the World philanthropic and volunteering Campaign, with a goal to raise £750m, with over £420m and over 130,000 volunteering hours raised to date. 

Outside of LSE, Ben is former Chair and now Vice-Chair of the Ross Group, Chair of the Ross EDIB Sub-Group, which he formed during the pandemic, is a former member of CASE Europe’s Council, formerly served as a member of the CASE Global Advancement Leaders’ Summit Planning Committee, was Chair of the Pitt Rivers Museum Advisory Board in Oxford and has been a trustee of nursery and out of school care provision. Prior to LSE, Ben worked at Oxford University for eight years, overseeing the University’s fundraising teams, where the Oxford Thinking Campaign grew from £800m to £2.7bn. Prior to Oxford, Ben spent 10 years at Warwick University, initially in international marketing and recruitment, then overseeing philanthropy, alumni and corporate engagement at Warwick Business School and serving the wider University, leading on international alumni engagement and philanthropy in East Asia.

Having secured a music scholarship to attend a private secondary school, and having received funding for undergraduate and graduate study, Ben is a passionate advocate of social mobility, of inclusion and belonging and the role of education for the betterment of society.

Dee Reid joined Leeds Beckett University as Director of External Relations in September 2017 where she leads internal and external communication, public affairs, brand, creative, digital and alumni, events and partnerships. She has over 25 years’ experience in strategic communications, working in senior roles in local government, education, the NHS and the private sector. Before joining Leeds Beckett, she was Head of Communications and Marketing at Leeds City Council, leading communications for the UK’s third largest city and prior to that, Head of Communications for Education Leeds, providing support for the city’s 265 schools. Dee is deputy chair of Leeds Community Foundation and a member of the CASE Europe Council.

Liz Reilly is Director of Philanthropy and Donor Relations at the University of Edinburgh; she joined the team in January 2015. Liz moved from Seattle, where she was Director of Development for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, a health care provider (with strong advocacy and educational programmes) serving patients in 30 clinics across three states. While there, Liz received the national Planned Parenthood Fundraiser of the Year Award. Liz has also been a campaign director, a fundraising consultant, and a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching at a secondary school in Malawi.

Liz's own giving tends to focus on expanding access to education; this has also been a theme in some of her volunteering, including her current roles as Philanthropic Advisor to the Cowrie Scholarship Foundation and as board member on UNICEF UK's Scotland Advisory Board. Liz is also the Chair of the CASE Europe Spring Institute in Educational Fundraising.