Mark Handforth
Business Owner, Meeting Theorist, Trainer, Author
Mark is a highly trusted consultant in healthcare sector meetings and events with over 20 years’ strategic and tactical experience. There is little he doesn’t know about building successful strategic and tactical frameworks for in-person and virtual format meetings, underpinned by cutting edge global compliance knowledge, he is passionate about the benefits of sharing this expertise between all parts of the meetings eco-system.
Mark’s career has seen him master a number of operational roles to become Director of global event management company World Events (now Ashfield Meetings), then Head of Global Events for F. Hoffmann La Roche where he established global compliance guidelines and the integration of 35 markets into a centralised solution.
More recently he worked with Grass Roots to create an aligned international multi-market offer for meetings and events, before becoming Director of 3Sixty Event Consulting and founding our independent venue compliance index healthcare-venues.com. When he’s not deeply involved in developing our own strategic and collaborative offering he is also an expert advisor to Plenum, a peer-to-peer networking group, through which he passionately contributes to the global dialogue around Healthcare meetings and events.
