Mark Allsup

MARK ALLSUP is the Chairman of Fairplace Consulting Plc. He started his
career at Chemical Bank after graduating in Law from Cambridge
University. He subsequently worked at Grindlays Bank, before joining DC
Gardner & Co, the international banking training company, in 1984. He
was appointed Chief Executive of DC Gardner Group Plc on its flotation
as a public company in 1988, which then entered the outplacement market
through the acquisition of Coutts Consultants Ltd in 1989. In 1992, Mark
Allsup co-founded Fairplace Consulting, a City of London-based
outplacement and career management consultancy, which became a public
company on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on 28 July 1997. He
provides career counselling to senior clients, who may typically be
seeking Board level appointments whether on an Executive or Non-
Executive Director basis. In 1999, Fairplace entered into a Tokyo-based
joint venture providing outplacement services with Select Appointments
(now part of the Vedior Group) and Staff Services, a major Japanese
staffing company.