The team

Mark Turner

Founder and Race Director

Biography

Entrepreneur, leader, and marketeer with diverse background from early career Royal Navy Officer, through to 20 years building a sports marketing business (www.ocsport.com) initially with Dame Ellen MacArthur during her sailing years, and in 2017/18 CEO of Volvo Ocean Race. In recent years investing and supporting in small sport or sustainability-focused business as a Strategic Advisor / NED whilst building a new portfolio in open water swimming. Mark has completed some of the classics such as Rottnest, Gibraltar Straits (where he met Nathaniel, co-founder) and Bonafacio Lausanne, Switzerland and Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France.