Mark Smith

aged 60, Chief Operating Officer
& Finance Director

Mark has been Finance Director of Chime since it was formed in 1989 and has been responsible for all corporate transactions and the financial control of the Company since that time. This included the flotation through a reverse takeover in 1994. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer in addition to Finance Director in January 2011.

Mark has been a Chartered Accountant since 1978, having qualified with Touche Ross & Co (now Deloitte LLP). Following two years as European Finance Director at RCA Records, he joined Good Relations Group plc in 1984 and became its Group Finance Director in 1985. In 1986 he became Finance Director of Lowe Bell Communications (now the Bell Pottinger) which formed the original base for Chime Communications.