Mark Sowden
Managing Director at MK International Consultants
Northallerton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Sowden is a commercial strategist and Managing Director with over two decades of experience driving global expansion, buying and supply-chain strategies for retail and FMCG businesses. He builds embedded teams and partnerships that scale sales, sourcing and e-commerce across Europe, Asia and North America, having worked with household names like P&G, Unilever, Lego and Philips as well as nimble start-ups. His strengths are pragmatic NPD-to-shelf thinking, contract negotiation and turning excess inventory or niche manufacturing into new revenue streams. A former head of e-commerce and international buying, he combines engineering-trained analytical rigour with hands-on commercial leadership. Based in Northallerton, he routinely bridges retailer expectations and overseas manufacturers to unlock cross-border growth opportunities.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering with Business, BEng, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering with Business at University of Portsmouth
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Github Skills (68)
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Github contributions (5)
QuartermindGames/fox-1.6.57_cmake
Apr 2021 - Jun 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
QuartermindGames/qmfw
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
A C23 framework for games, software and everything in-between.
Contributions:1230 commits, 19 PRs, 1095 pushes in 6 years 3 months
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