Mark Pownall

Background

About Mark Pownall

Mark Pownall has around three decades of media experience, predominantly in business media in Perth, with a foray to the financial centre of London in the early 1990s. He has written a regular column for Business News since he joined as Editor in As a senior executive at Business News from until 2021, Mark has also been a key part of the Mark My Words podcast duo with Mark Beyer since 2014, interviewed many business leaders guests on stage and being active on social media. For most of his time at Business News he ran the content operations of the business and was integral to the implementation of all the company’s digital products – the twice daily email newsletters, weekly podcasts, deals database and the Data & Insights subscriber database and search engine. In early 2017 he became CEO of Business News, a role he had for nearly three years before transitioning to his last executive position as Director of Strategy & Innovation, where he was responsible for digital transformation and new product development, including the rollout of a new subscriber-only remuneration platform. Mark’s media career started with sports reporting while he studied for a Commerce degree at the University of Western Australia, followed by post-graduate qualification in English at Curtin University. You can find his written work at