He is a leader in engaging diverse organisations, communities, and their leadership, toward broad based support of effective development, global health, humanitarian work in the United States and around the world.  He specialises in organising partnerships and collaboration. He also serves as Founder and Principal of Assisi Strategy, LLC, a consulting firm that works with leading religious, secular, and public organisations such as International Religious Freedom Roundtable, U.S. Department of State, FADICA/Vatican COVID-19 Commission, the International Interfaith Peace Corps, the King Hamad Global Centre for Peaceful Coexistence, among others.

Prior, Mark served as an Obama Administration appointee at the U.S. Agency for International Development where he led the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, an independent office reporting to the USAID Administrator.  While at USAID he built relationships and leveraged faith and community leaders in support of common priorities and initiatives such as food-aid reform, child survival, humanitarian relief such as the Nepal earthquake, and typhon relief in the Philippines and beyond.  Within the Inter-Agency he was tasked to organise significant events for the African Leaders Summit and the visit of Pope Francis to Washington as well as the White House Easter Prayer Breakfast.

Mark’s career also includes guiding efforts for USAID to the completion of two Global Development Alliances for peacemaking in Central African Republic and the Asili Project in Democratic Republic of Congo as well as private partnership relating to peacemaking efforts in South Sudan.  He led a collaboration with the German government to establish the Partnership for Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD) which includes governmental development entities, as well as multilateral and faith based non-governmental organisations. He served on the leadership team at the ONE Campaign, organising partnerships and advocates among organisations, influential individuals and groups, such as music artists and related industry leaders and the private sector.

Mark was the inaugural recipient of Islamic Relief-USA’s Award for Excellence in 2016, and is a graduate of the University of Dayton.