text: positions with the Company in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai 
  
  and Saudi Arabia. Still with McDermott, but returning to Australia, he 
  
  then worked on new projects in Bass Strait and finally the Woodside North Rankin A and 
  
  Goodwyn A platforms on the North West Shelf in Western Australia. In 1991, Mark joined 
  
  Clough Offshore as project manager of a number of NWS projects, followed by duties in 
  
  Thailand, China and Indonesia. By 1993, he was operations/project manager for BHP’s Griffin 
  
  project and by 1994 became Managing Director of Clough Offshore. A highly talented manager, 
  
  Mark then presided over the five fold growth of Clough Offshore, which was to make the 
  
  Western Australian company one of the best equipped, professional and competitive groups in 
  
  the offshore contracting business. In 1997, he joined the Board of Clough Engineering as an 
  
  Executive Director, retiring to become a shareholder and CEO of Mermaid in 2000. 