Mark Logan is the former Chief Entrepreneurial Advisor to the Scottish Government, and authored Scotland’s national tech start-up strategy. He is currently Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship at the University of Glasgow, a Senior Enterprise Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Visiting Professor at The Glasgow School of Art, and Co-founder of Ipso-Facto Management, a scale-up consultancy, where he has trained and mentored over 200 start-up and scale-up founders.
Mark has almost 30 years of senior leadership experience in the high- tech sector, including as COO of Skyscanner, where he was responsible for the general management of the business during the company’s high-growth phase, scaling the business to 1000 people and culminating in its sale for £1.45B in 2016. In 2014, the Institute of Directors named him Director of the Year and in 2016 he won the UK Digital Masters award for Excellence in General Management. He has been conferred honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow and Robert Gordon University for this contribution to the technology industry. In 2022, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contribution to Scotland’s technology industry and was awarded an OBE in 2023 for service to the economy.
