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Mark Hallam BSc MNI FCA
Finance & Information Systems Director
Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Mark Hallam is a Chartered Accountant, and joined the RNLI in November 2005  as Finance & Information Systems Director.

Previously he had spent 11 years in the City, as Global Audit Director and then UK & Ireland Finance Director of the Willis Group, and then as European Finance Director of another leading insurance broker. Prior to that, he spent 11 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers and predecessor firms, working in London, Luxembourg and Bristol. He qualified as a Certified Information Systems Auditor in 2000.

Prior to his commercial career, Mark served in the Royal Navy from 1978 to 1987 as a Seaman Officer. On leaving regular service, he continued in the Royal Naval Reserve for a further seven years, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

His achievements at the RNLI have included redesigning and relaunching the reserves policy, the investment strategy, and staff pension arrangements, and leading the RNLI’s Microsoft migration programme, standardising on a single IT infrastructure.

Mark is a keen linguist and (inevitably!), a keen sailor.