Mark is a patent attorney and a Partner of Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick Intellectual Property, focussing on due diligence, protection and enforcement of intellectual property for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, health and medical device industries. After completing a PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and postdoctoral research in Canada, he returned to Australia on a CJ Martin Fellowship. He has sat on the advisory boards of a number of technology-based start-up companies.