Mark Bentley
Chief Executive Officer, Auckland Communities Foundation
Mark is Chief Executive of Auckland Communities Foundation, a major new fundraising and grant making organisation for good causes in the city. The Foundation builds upon the previous experience of over nine years of operation of the Manukau Community Foundation.
Previously, Mark was General Manager for a national leadership institute in New Zealand, and prior to that he coordinated the University of Auckland Business School's marketing and fundraising strategy and, in particular, the drive to raise $50m for the “World Class Business School” project.
Mark has also managed corporate marketing and alumni relations at Manchester Business School, a highly regarded international business school, and had prior experience of marketing and enterprise roles in the TV sport, further education and construction industries.
Mark has been a trustee of Outward Bound for the last four years.
Mark has an MBA from the University of Auckland (Beta Gamma Sigma and Dean’s Senior Prize) and holds a graduate diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Mark was selected by the University of Auckland to be their representative on the inaugural Committee for Auckland Future Auckland Leaders Programme in 2004/5.
