About Mark
founder of essex networking skills
Who is Mark Sexton, and why should you join Essex Networking Skills?
Who runs Essex Networking Skills (ENS)?
Mark Sexton owns and manages ENS as part of a wide range of business and community interests. Mark is the Managing Director of the Phoenix Partnership (East) Ltd (TPPE) which is an education business partnership (EBP) and a founding Director of Thurrock Hammers Ltd, a company dedicated to managing the campaign to return speedway racing to South West Essex.
Mark worked in international finance between 1974 and 2001. He held senior positions in the Foreign Exchange divisions at major UK, Canadian and US banks and investment firms, working in London, Hong Kong, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
After some additional study, Mark earned his BA and qualified as a primary school teacher in 2004 and has worked in the education sector since then. He became a founding Director of The Phoenix Partnership (East) in 2009. TPPE created its operations division (Essex Work Skills www.essexworkskills.co.uk) in 2014. He is the pro-bono Chair of the strategy board of Thurrock’s Next Top Boss which is a long-standing pan-borough educational project that provides real world experience of work-related learning to students and young people between the ages of 14 and 19.
Mark is a qualified cricket coach, public speaker and community leader. He has been involved in business networking since 2013, holding several management and leadership roles during that time and he established and managed the Lakeside Hammers (Speedway) Community Liaison Programme between 2009 and 2018.
Why ENS?
ENS was created in 2020 during the Covid-19 health emergency to provide safe (and legal!) face to face networking opportunities to owners of micro and SME businesses in North Essex and South Suffolk. From small beginnings, the wider network now connects over 100 businesses and is growing rapidly.
The ENS Business Directory has been created to provide an additional and cost-effective digital marketing resource and facilitate our networking opportunities to business owners across the UK.
What the Directory is for.
The ENS Business Directory lists information about businesses and provides a centralised hub where users can search, find, and connect with relevant businesses.