Mark Wolsey

Group Security Director at CRH plc

As a graduate in Philosophy, Mark served for 25 years as an officer in the Royal Marines, seeing commando service globally, spending much of his time planning and taking part in counter-terrorist operations and intelligence.

On leaving military service, he was appointed as Chief Security Officer in Smiths Group, a FTSE-100 company, followed by similar jobs in Cadbury, Philipp Morris International, PwC and most recently CRH, the global building materials company.

During this time, Mark has been directly involved in most global crises, conflicts and natural disasters that have taken place and is highly experienced in all aspects of resilience and problem solving, including crisis planning and response.

He currently spends much of his time in Ukraine working for CRH on national resilience planning and specialist military construction and re-construction projects.