Mark Curran

Mark is Head of UK Expansion & Operations at Shuttle, a category defining private market investment platform. Mark formerly served as Senior Consultant in Valentia Partners, a boutique management consulting firm, where he specialised in providing strategic advisory services across Private Equity, FinTech, and Digital Assets to help senior leaders and investors implement go-to-market, licensing, and expansion strategies.

He formerly served as a Policy Advisor and Corporate Finance Specialist at Ireland's Department of Finance and advised across emerging national and EU policy areas such as Digital Assets, FinTech & SpaceTech. Mark contributed to Ireland’s negotiations and subsequent implementation of the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation and served as an ad-hoc member of the OECD’s Committee on Financial Markets, contributing to research on global policy initiatives.

Mark also trained as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG Corporate Finance working in fundraising, M&A and Government Advisory, and has a research interest at the intersection of Geopolitics, Emerging Technology and Venture Capital through Queen's University, Belfast.