About Us
Helping students and teachers to realise their potential
Mark Allen
Mark retired from Cancer Research UK where he spent five years as Executive Director of Human Resources. He has over 35 years of human resource and general management experience gained in multinational corporations including AB Agri (Associated British Foods), Constellation Brands Inc, Campbell Soup Company, Yardley Lentheric and International Distillers.
Having worked in various senior leadership roles, he has a wealth of experience developing people strategies within large and complex organisations. He has led on equality, diversity and inclusion, employee and industrial relations, compensation and benefits, including advising remuneration committees on pay practices, talent acquisition and development, and the people aspects of mergers, acquisitions, disposals and large capital projects.
Mark has undertaken extensive voluntary work as a non-executive director, advising on remuneration, pay and reward practices. He has also been a board member and chair of trustees for several large occupational pension schemes and was deputy-chair of governors for one of the UK’s largest further education (FE) colleges.
Mark is the Chair of AQA’s Remuneration Committee.
