Mark Peters

Mark Peters is the current Company Secretary at Franchise Brands. Mark has held this position since January 2019. Prior to this, they were the Senior Director of Analytics at Axcess Financial from January 2019 to December 2021. In this role, they were responsible for risk reporting and analytics for a $15B Sales Finance organization. Mark managed a team of 8 analysts (remote) supporting risk reporting, analytics, securitization, and economic capital.

Some of their notable accomplishments include providing insight to portfolio credit performance during the Great Recession and developing a RACV-based methodology to drive growth post recession, which resulted in expanding growth segments and more timely engagement within those segments. Mark was also the risk lead in the $2B acquisition of Citibank Private Label portfolio, delivering loss forecasting and customer profiling. In addition, they drove the culture of transforming analytics into future reporting through automation to ensure learnings were not lost over time and results were portfolio changes were understood.

Before their role at Axcess Financial, Peters served as the Vice President Credit Insights and Policy at Synchrony from January 2015 to December 2019. Mark was also the Senior Manager of Risk - Sales Finance at Synchrony from January 2008 to December 2012. Prior to that, they served as the Vice President of Information Technology at Bank of America from January 2004 to December 2008.

Mark Peters began their educational career by obtaining a BS in Mathematics from Missouri State University. Mark then went on to earn an MS in Statistics from Iowa State University. Finally, they obtained a certification from LinkedIn in R Programming in Data Science: Setup and Start.

Mark Peters works with Ian Lawrence - Chairman, Willow Pumps, Peter Molloy - Managing Director, B2B Division, and Tim Harris - Managing Director, B2C Division. Mark Peters reports to Stephen Hemsley, Executive Chairman.