Mark Cracknell Email & Phone Number

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Utopia Padel is a community padel club located in Copdock, just outside Ipswich. It will be opening in January 2025. My role is focused on developing and growing the club in the coming years.

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

The PC Padel Academy was launched in June 2024 on the back of the success of padel in the UK and my love for the sport. I have been lucky enough to have been trained by one of the top Spanish academies and I am keen to use these skills to help players improve their game The academy covers all aspects of padel: physical, technical, tactical, strategic and mental. We strive to develop every player to be the best version of themselves, maximising their playing potential and that of the wider padel community.My desire is to expand the academy, delivering coaching and development programs to multiple locations.

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

I will be working with organisations to develop and grow Padel in the UK. This entails encouraging individuals and corporates to get involved and help grow the sport. In addition, I have fulfilled a life-long ambition and become a sports coach, helping teach others to improve their game.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Finance Utopia was founded after years of working with CFOs and Finance Teams and experiencing their frustrations at not being able to meet their full potential. Finance professionals want, and deserve, to be at the heart of the business as thought leaders and strategists, and not seen as predominantly a processing function.We want to help CFOs and the Finance Team elevate themselves within their organisation, becoming valued business partners. To do this they need to transform - improving their efficiency and effectiveness and changing the perception of their value to the company.Finance Utopia aims to help organisations on their Finance Transformation journey. From understanding what it is, visualising what is possible, selecting a technology platform, through to delivering transformation.What sets us apart from the large consultancy practices? Our five core values;Independence - we are technology platform agnosticKnowledge - extensive domain knowledge, experience of finance and the technology marketFocus - we are focused on one subject and vision – the transformation of the Finance TeamAgility - we are quick to move and can be flexible to your needs and time-scalesPragmatism - we steer away from the theoretical and holistic and provide sensible, realistic advice

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Ipswich Sports Club has award winning sports, fitness and social facilities and is situated in a convenient location close to the town centre. It is a Community Amateur Sports Club run by the members for the members and offer memberships to the whole community. The club is well-known nationally for tennis, squash and hockey and also has a gym and dance studios. My voluntary role as Treasurer and Director is to help manage and develop the club for current and future members.

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

This exciting new role will include liaising with the +70,000 global community of finance professionals to identify the issues they face, as well as understanding and working with the technology platforms that are available as enabling solutions. Through webinars, articles, podcasts and discussion we aim to help educate the community and understand the ‘art of the possible’ and how this can be successfully delivered.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

As a Director and part-owner of HAYNE I had a strategic role that covered a number of areas. As a customer facing role, I worked closely with finance teams within organisations helping them develop strategies to evolve from their historic stewardship role to providing insight and strategy. From an internal HAYNE point of view, I helped develop the HAYNE brand, intellectual property and relationships with partner vendors.

Ipswich

As a founding shareholder I lead the development and growth of Aramar as company to become a leading consultancy and IBM Business Analytics partner in the UK.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Civil Engineering

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