
The Bat & Ball Inn, Hambledon
Autumn Meeting: 22 October 2022
Guest Speaker: Mark Curtin
Mark Curtin, the Chief Executive Officer at the Lord’s Taverners, has been a senior leader in the charity sector for nearly 20 years, with most of his career spent working in the charity and ‘sport for development’ space. Before his appointment as the CEO at the Lord’s Taverners, he was serving as Chief Executive Officer of a food redistribution charity, The Felix Project. He has held senior leadership roles in several other children’s health and well-being and education charities. He also worked as Chief Operating Officer at Greenhouse Sports for seven years.
Mark has spent his life in sports as a club volunteer, a coach, a sports development professional, and a safeguarding lead officer and tutor. He has worked in the USA, the U.K., and briefly in France. Mark describes himself as a passionate “Sports Nut” and attributes almost everything he has achieved in his career to skills and characteristics learned and developed through playing sports.