Mark Evans

Mark is an executive level marketer and experienced non-executive director across listed, public and charity sectors. 

In his last exec role at Direct Line Group (DLG) Mark was Managing Director for Marketing & Digital. He also sat on the Board of DLG Legal Services. Prior to DLG Mark worked at HSBC, 118118 and Mars in a broad range of marketing and commercial roles.

Outside of DLG Mark is NED for the Marketing Society, Independent Advisor to HMRC, Chair of the School of Marketing, INED for Emma3D – a tech scale-up, and co-host of the "The Places We'll Go" podcast. He also founded a charity event - the Sprintathon - in 2016 which seeks to #beatcancerfaster and has raised £850k to date for Stand Up To Cancer. 

Mark is a Fellow of the Marketing Society and of the Marketing Academy, and was recognised as the Marketing Society Leader of the Year in 2018. 


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Mark Evans joined Direct Line Group in 2012 and in the past 8 years has overseen the transformation of DLG's

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