Mark Farrell is a Pro Vice Chancellor at Victoria University. He possess expertise in higher education, university teaching, lecturing, research, leadership and 24 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Mark is a high energy, insightful educational strategist. He is experienced in managing across a range of higher education settings. He encourages others to recognise that successful strategies only occur with well thought through change implementation plans and actions. He has the ability to bring people along with him, he guides and encourages others to their achieve own successes and he keeps his eye on the prize. " and "Mark is a person you'll love to work with. He has not only sharp ideas and an ability to get things done - quickly and efficient. What really sets him apart is his entrepreneurial mindset and his thinking in innovative business models. On top of that he is very helpful, charming and has a humorous character, which makes interactions with him a joy. We realized together various university cooperations as well as complex large scale joint programs in Switzerland and China with Australian, Chinese and Swiss partipants - which were an experience in its own. Working together with Mark is a priviledge and organizations will profit deeply from him, not only because of his intercultural skills, but also financial wise through his smart positioning and effective execution of planned initiatives. Strongly recommend Mark to any organization!"