Mark Powell is a senior executive and enterprise leader who connects Board direction, government expectations and enterprise risk to the decisions that shape CS Energy's performance, licence to operate and shareholder confidence.
As Chief Corporate Services Officer and member of the Executive Leadership Team, Mark leads CS Energy's Corporate Affairs, Risk, Internal Audit, and Legal and Company Secretariat functions. He is accountable for the governance, risk, compliance and assurance frameworks that underpin disciplined decision-making across the company, and maintains CS Energy's structured engagement with government and shareholding stakeholders on material risks, strategic priorities and the company's capital and portfolio transition agenda.
Mark brings more than 20 years of cross-sector experience in enterprise governance, risk, stakeholder leadership and strategy across energy, government, financial services, professional services and consumer goods, in Australia and internationally.
At MLC Life Insurance, he led sustainability and corporate affairs, served on the steering committee for a $13 billion merger, and delivered a crisis communications response during regulatory enforcement that achieved materially lower negative sentiment than industry comparators. At PMI, he was a member of the regional Executive Leadership Team and led integrated advocacy campaigns that secured passage of national legislation and Commonwealth Budget funding for a multi-agency enforcement taskforce. At PwC in Dubai, he directed multi-year government strategy engagements for sovereign clients, including a five-year foreign investment attraction strategy for a G20 economy and ongoing advisory to the Executive Office of a Prime Minister.
A lawyer and former management consultant, Mark holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Business from the Queensland University of Technology and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from the College of Law. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Communication and Public Relations Australia.