Mark Patron

Mark Patron M IDM is a digital marketing consultant and non-exec director. He has worked in data driven marketing for 30 years. Previously as CEO he grew RedEye to be one of the top two UK based email marketing automation businesses. Mark has been a director of over 50 UK, Continental and US data driven marketing companies.

He was a co-founder of Transactis. Mark was part of the management team that developed the revenues of VNU's marketing information business, now called Nielsen market research, from $150 million in 1994 to $2.5 billion by 2001. He co- founded and was Chairman of Abacus Europe. Over 14 years, mostly as MD, he built Claritas UK, now part of Acxiom, to £30 million revenues. Mark was voted one of UK's 15 most influential direct marketers by readers of Precision Marketing magazine.