Mark Davies
About
Mark Davies is from Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Mark is currently Chief Executive Officer at Kaldi Financial Technology, located in London. Mark also works as Founder and Chair at The Big Map, a job Mark has held since Dec 2023. Another title Mark currently holds is Founder at Camberton. In Mark's previous role as a Interim CEO, British Rowing at British Rowing, Mark worked in until Nov 2025. Prior to joining British Rowing, Mark was a Chair at WEST Youth Zone and held the position of Chair at White City, London. Prior to that, Mark was a Advisor at Ruth Strauss Foundation, based in United Kingdom from Sep 2020 to Apr 2025. Mark started working as Chair at British Rowing in Apr 2018. From Jul 2012 to Sep 2019, Mark was Trustee at SportsAid. Prior to that, Mark was a Governor at HOLYPORT COLLEGE from Sep 2015 to Jun 2019. Mark started working as Chairman at Archery GB in Lilleshall in Jun 2015.
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Mark Davies's current jobs
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The Big Map is a business that is looking to turn the work that I did while at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government - where I wrote a thesis on 'How sport can become a better tool of public policy' - into reality. It has mapped the country's sports provision to the country's schools network and links the two in order to transform the way that we can deliver sport to young people. More than 50% of the country is inactive, at the same time as we spend billions addressing issues like obesity and diabetes. TBM's proposition is that a lifetime's inactivity starts at school, when people are thrown a ball and expected to catch it or control it - and if they can't, they label themselves as 'unsporty', which sticks for life. But 27 out of 40 Olympic sports do not require a ball, and every one of those sports has upwards of 500 clubs in the country- one for every 9 secondary schools. TBM is looking to broaden what we can offer schoolchildren in order that more of them engage in physical activity. Getting even 1% of the 'unsporty' to recognise that there IS a sport out there for them would be transformative to the country.
Camberton begun as a consultancy business, drawing on the experience I gained as we grew Betfair from 8 to 3,000 people and advising clients from the British Horseracing Authority to care homes businesses in matters of media, lobbying, and wider stakeholder management. Since 2015, the business has been inactive and the name kept for the Camberton Foundation, which supports projects for young people in and outside education, such as Onside Youth Zones below.
Mark Davies's past jobs
Appointed a new 5-person senior team of Chief Financial, Operating and Digital Officers, Director of Development and Director of Performance, stabilising finances and putting in place a new strategic focus. In six months the team turned around financial and governance scorecards, re-aligned teams, and set out a clear vision for the future.
WEST - Where Everyone Sticks Together - is the Onside Youth Zone in Hammersmith and Fulham, which provides somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk to for young people in west London. Under my chairmanship, the project went from a patch of ground with an agreement from the council to build, to a fully-functioning £10m state-of-the-art youth zone that opened in April 2024 after an eight-year fundraise (from philanthropists, philanthropic trusts and local businesses). We now have more than 3,000 young people as members, and around 700 come every week.
I advised the Ruth Strauss Foundation, the charity which helps families suffering a bereavement and investigates the causes of non-smoking lung cancer, as part of its Fund-Raising Advisory Group
Appointed a new CEO and the Performance Director following disappointing results at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. They delivered British Rowing's best results at an overseas Olympics and best results in any Paralympics at the Paris Games of 2024.
If SportsAid were country, it would have been 4th in the medal table for London 2012. The charity funds athletes at the early stage of their career, and 14 of the gold medallists from the London Games are SportsAid alumni. I had been involved with SportsAid since Betfair made it its Charity of the Year in 2006 and 2007, and I joined as a Trustee in order to retain an involvement and continue to support after I left the business. So in total I was involved for over a decade, which included the delivery of the Backing the Best programme that focused on making sure that no athlete should miss out on getting onto the performance pathway as a result of financial need.
Holyport College is a state boarding school in Berkshire. I was an independent governor, and aside from day-to-day governance duties tended to play the role of "Devil's Advocate" in any instances of exclusion, suspension or expulsion - questioning the Head Master to assess whether a given sanction was fair and had properly followed due process.
Archery GB is the national governing body for archery in Great Britain. When I arrived we were six months late in submitting a strategy to Sport England and in danger of losing our government funding. I appointed an interim and then a permanent CEO and we balanced the books - and took our AGMs from fractious affairs full of people baying for blood to a much happier band of members who saw me out with a standing ovation as I departed my final one to move to British Rowing.
www.ratesetter.com RateSetter was a peer-to-peer lending business. The Founders built a business which was worth £250m at the funding round before its eventual exit to Metrobank as COVID was reaching its height.