Bens Creek Group plc announced that Mark Cooper has joined the board of Bens Creek as a Non-Executive Director. Mark is an innovative and strategically-driven lawyer and operations executive with more than 25 years' experience in business leadership, legal and operational excellence, drawn from the investment banking and fund management sectors. After being called to the Bar of England & Wales in 1997, Mark spent several years in private practice before moving in-house to take up senior legal and regulatory roles in the financial services sector.

Currently he is the Group General Counsel for MBU. Prior to this Mark worked as a general counsel for a global financial services business covering the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Mark has extensive corporate and commercial experience in the UK and internationally.

Throughout his career he has focused not only on legal and risk matters, but also regulatory commercial, governance and operational affairs. He has sat on the board of several FCA-regulated entities and overseas regulated entities, as well as numerous international operating businesses. Mark Antony John Cooper (formerly Mark Antony John Terry), age 52.