Mark Knight

Mark Knight, Director, has over twenty five years’ experience in managing PR and communication programmes both in-house and as a consultant. A former army officer, his PR career began with NATO’s Rapid Reaction Force. On leaving the armed services he worked for the in-house PR team at Thorn EMI before taking on the role of head of PR at the Financial Times. He moved into consultancy with Omnicom before starting his own PR consultancy which merged with Broadgate Mainland in 2003. He is a member of the Fields in Trust charity appeal board and is tasked with raising the profile of its Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge whose patron is the Duke of Cambridge. He is also a regular blogger for the Huffington Post.

Favourite expression: “Be brief, be bright, be gone.”

Mastermind topic: Rugby Football 1975-2012.

Guilty secret: Has a bear suit for special occasions.

You wouldn’t know it but I am surprisingly good at: Flower arranging