Mark Downing

Background

About Mark Downing

I am a Senior Enterprise SEO & eCommerce Leader, adept at driving market share and organic growth with scalable SEO programs. I excel at leading cross-functional teams, leveraging automation and prompt engineering, and translating complex analytical insights into executive-level action. Highlights of experience include: Program Development & Enablement: Architected and scaled a global SEO Centre of Excellence, training thousands of colleagues and embedding search-first principles across an organization. Data Innovation & Executive Influence: Developed novel executive-level market share reporting, translating complex data into clear, actionable insights that directly inform competitive strategy. Future-Focused Strategy: Pioneering strategies for the next wave of search, leveraging AI, automation, and prompt engineering to capitalize on the evolution toward Answer Engines and Agentic Search. International SEO & eCommerce: Thrived in the hyper-competitive landscape of China, considered by many to be the vanguard of eCommerce. There, the playbook for modern brand building is still being written, focused on driving omnichannel visibility and engagement across the intricate ecosystems of superapps, social platforms, and marketplaces. As Google's search monopoly splinters, the rest of the world is finally catching up.