Mark was born and raised in South London. A teenage music fan in the late 70s and early 80s, he landed his first job in a Rough Trade warehouse in 1985 and stayed there until moving to Spain in 1990, where he has been working since. He runs and owns Everlasting Records and Popstock Distribuciones, the eminent Iberian music companies with offices in Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon. Mark was a founding member of the Spanish labels’ association UFI as well as participating at Merlin, IMPALA and WIN boards.