Serial Entrepreneur.

Author. Angel Investor.

Keynote Speaker.

Meet Mark

Award-winning entrepreneur, business leader, innovator, board advisor, facilitator, and keynote speaker.

Watch the video to get a feel for what Mark’s about.

Keynote speaker and conference host Mark Roberts

Innovation isn’t a choice.

In an age of constant disruption and emerging challengers, being able to effectively innovate is the key competitive advantage you and your team must leverage. Mark regularly helps businesses answer key questions about themselves:

Innovation-Led Growth - How do you identify the right innovation trends for your business, and go after them with the laser-like focus of a challenger start-up?

The Red Tape Conundrum - What causes a business to stop innovating effectively? And how can you avoid falling into the same traps?

Agitating Innovation: Human creativity in an age of AI - How can your business effectively utilise AI whilst still maintaining the essential human skill of creative innovation?


These are just a few of the questions Mark helps businesses answer by combining personal stories and theoretical knowledge from his decades of experience working with some of the world’s biggest brands.

Award-winning scale up entrepreneur & business leader

Industry advisor at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School

Board chair, trustee, non-exec director and angel investor

The Book

The Entrepreneur Within

An innovator’s playbook to help ideas gain traction, scale quickly, and keep an entrepreneurial mindset alive within any organisation.


In it Mark outlines his tried-and-tested FORGE Methodology, showing how businesses of all stages and sizes can develop creative and viable innovation that makes a difference.


Through combining decades of experience and research with deeply insightful interviews from some of the world’s leading innovators, the book provide meaningful tips, tricks, and traps to avoid when innovating.

“Inspiring and deeply practical…how to bust through bureaucracy and innovate at scale”

Andy Logan, VP, AB InBev

Mark is available for speaking engagements, advisory roles and innovation consulting.

Interested in more long-term support on business growth and innovation?

Check out Mark’s dedicated innovation company:


Red Line Foundry