Mark Palmer

Mark Palmer is an independent management consultant working on several high growth businesses and with many of the UK's top business schools.  He is the former Global CEO of Consulting for the French multi-national - Webhelp.  He has a degree in French and an MBA from Cardiff Business School.

Mark started his career in France in the early 1990s working for Valeo SA (a $20bn revenue tier 1 automotive group) where he spent 9 years working in production, process engineering, sales and general management. He became the UK MD for Valeo by the age of 30.

In 2001 he joined a start-up called OEE Consulting which enjoyed annual revenues circa £1.8m at that time. He became its leader in 2008 - where and with a new leadership team and value proposition, the firm grew to £24m by 2018 at which point the business was sold to Webhelp - the European leader in customer care and business support. 

In 2017 Mark was appointed to the board of the MCA (Management Consultancies Association).

He is a life-long Leicester Tigers fan and is married to Heather who is from Leicestershire.