Born in 1959, Mark , who lives in Flintshire, is a Welsh Conservative Assembly Member for North Wales . He and his wife , Hilary , have six children and one grandchild. Before election to the National Assembly for Wales in 2003, he was employed as a Building Society Area Manager in North Wales.
Following re-election to the Assembly in 2007, Mark became the Shadow Minister for Social Justice, Equality and Housing He remains Shadow Minister for Social Justice and Housing.
A politics graduate of Newcastle University, Mark is also an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. Mark takes a keen interest in economic, current and social affairs. He is a former Treuddyn Community Councillor, former School Governor (and Chair) of Ysgol Parc y Llan and former Voluntary Board Member of Venture Housing Association, where he remains a Member.
His interests outside politics revolve around his family, home and sailing in Abersoch, Gwynedd. He is a former Chairman of Mold Round Table.
Mark is an Ambassador for Clwyd Girl Guides, a Vice President of the North Wales Play Association, a Patron of the Tyddyn Bach Respite Centre in Penmaenmawr, a member of Conwy CAB and an ambassador for Clare House Hospice. Mark was also the founder of CHANT Cymru (Community Hospitals Acting Nationally Together).