Mark A Izatt

FOUNDER | CONSULTANT | NED | TRUSTEE

Mark is a global brand consultant with over 30 years’ experience within the luxury spirits, technology, goods, and service sectors. In 2013, he founded Communicating Luxury.

In 2019, he established Mission Critical, a weekly briefing service dedicated to delivering essential information to globally curious but time-constrained decision makers.

Scottish-born with dual British & Maltese citizenship, Mark graduated from the University of Aberdeen in Forestry and has spent most of his career in New York and London. Spending over a decade working on iconic whisky brands including The Macallan, Glenmorangie, and The Glenlivet. He has worked extensively in the UK, Europe, the USA, Russia, the Middle East, China, and SE Asia. Prior to this, he was a Parliamentary Researcher and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for Scotland.

For 7 years, Mark was a trustee ofCombat Stress, and is now a trustee of the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Benevolent Fund.

He chairs the Passenger Forum at London’s Heathrow Airport as well as being Deputy Chair of the Council for the Independent Scrutiny of Heathrow Airport and a Non-Executive Director of the Heathrow Community Engagement Board.

Mark is a contributing lecturer and tutor on .Digital Marketing, Advanced Masters in Digital Business Strategy course at Grenoble Ecole de Management

He is a member of Mark’s Club , Chatham House.and The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Mark lives in West London and is an eResident of Estonia.