Mark Howden has extensive experience in various roles within the corporate strategy and finance fields. Mark most recently served as an Investment Director at LDC since September 2020. Prior to that, Mark worked as the Chief Strategy Officer at Bentley Motors from March 2019 to August 2020. Before joining Bentley Motors, they held positions at Jaguar Land Rover, including Director of Corporate Strategy & Planning from April 2017 to March 2019, Director of Globalisation from April 2014 to April 2017, and Senior Finance Manager, Strategy and Transformation from January 2011 to March 2014. Mark also worked as an Associate in Mergers and Acquisitions at Rothschild & Co from October 2006 to January 2011, and as a Manager in Corporate Restructuring at EY from September 2003 to September 2006. Mark began their career with a university scholarship in Corporate Restructuring at Arthur Andersen & Co. from September 1999 to June 2003.
Mark Howden attended the University of Warwick - Warwick Business School from 2000 to 2003, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Science. Mark also obtained a certification as a Chartered Accountant from ICAS in September 2003.
LDC
For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams. Part of Lloyds Banking Group, our experience, scale, and relationship-based approach have helped hundreds of management teams across the UK to grow their businesses, their way. Since 2012, the businesses we’ve supported have grown four times more than the national average, increasing in value by a cumulative £7bn. We offer strategic support, challenge when necessary and provide flexible growth capital as either minority or majority shareholders. This means we can help management teams to deliver a range of different growth strategies – including making acquisitions, investing in operations or sales and marketing, broadening products and services, or expanding overseas. With a national network of 10 offices, our teams live and work right across the UK. By combining local relationships with national scale, we’re able to build trusted relationships from day one. Our experience has seen us invest in companies across more than 50 sub-sectors, supporting the whole of the UK economy, through good times and bad.