Innovation & Impact
A serial entrepreneur, Mark has lived on four continents and built five successful companies - from the very first dotcoms in New York City to investment matchmaking in London, and then to business incubation & agricultural services in Ghana. Heavily influenced by his anthropology degree, he’s sought out frontier markets in tech, innovating early and helping shape the path for others. Mark lives between Lisbon and Salvador.
RackAfricaPAIX's investment in RackAfrica marks the launch of its colocation services in Ghana and West Africa as part of its strategy of building a Pan-African data centre platform [ITWEB]
More »February 26, 2018
He rented a former bottling factory, and converted it into Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest private technology centre; BusyInternet. It set out to be an incubator, promoting the use of ICT among small and medium-sized companies. [GRAPHIC]
More »January 11, 2016
EsokoTradeNet will unveil a simple sort of eBay for agricultural products across a dozen countries in west Africa. It lets buyers and sellers indicate what they are after and their contact information... [CNN]
More »January 25, 2007
BusyInternetAn old gas-bottling plant in Ghana's capital city of Accra became the incubating laboratory for a selection of dot.com start-ups and one of the continent's flashest cyber cafes. [BBC]
More »June 16, 2003
BusyInternetMr. Davies, a Welsh-born American, is the founder of BusyInternet, which provides Internet access to Ghanaians. By any standard, the company is already a tremendous African success story... [WSJ]
More »May 22, 2002
BusyInternetOur philosophy is to say nobody really knows what's right for Ghana... the best thing you can do is create these little incubators where you're bringing people together and coming up with solutions on their own [NYTIMES]
More »August 23, 2001
BusyInternetDavies originally planned a philanthropic venture to provide better communications ... but as he considered the failures of other misbegotten African aid programs, Davies had a change of heart... [BOSTON GLOBE]
More »July 23, 2001
FirsttuesdayFirst tuesday can be credited with unleashing a level of entrepreneurship not seen in London since the City's shipping days, as it brought ideas, people and money together in holy alliance [EVENING STANDARD]
More »June 5, 2001
FirsttuesdayThe dot.com that made dot.com dreams come true is on the verge of collapse. First Tuesday, the networking concept that started as a get-together of would-be internet entrepreneurs in a Soho bar... [THE INDEPENDENT]
More »January 22, 2001
FirsttuesdayFirst Tuesday has become a community and a popular movement... It is not about fashionable twenty-somethings meeting at cocktail parties, rather it is a mechanism for helping entrepreneurs, financial backers and service providers to meet and do business. [GUARDIAN]
More »July 21, 2000
Metrobeatwhen the Cambridge University graduate discovered the Internet last year, he got to work. Cadging money from his friends and stretching his credit cards to the max, Davies began building Metrobeat... [LATIMES]
More »July 29, 1996
MetrobeatWith Metrobeat, you can search by categroy, by neighborhood, by venue. We are better than newspapers... [NYPOST]
More »February 29, 1996
