Mark Versallion
| Mark Versallion | |
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| Executive Member Children's Services at Central Bedfordshire Council | |
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Assumed office 19 May 2011 |
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| Councillor, London Borough of Harrow | |
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In office May 2002 – May 2011 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Cornwall, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Caroline Versallion |
| Children | Four |
| Residence | Bedfordshire, England |
| Alma mater | Westminster, Reading, and Oxford |
| Website | www.markversallion.com |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy
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| Years of service | 1996-present |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
Mark Anthony Gaius Versallion is a British politician, businessman, and officer in the Royal Naval Reserve. He was the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Stretford and Urmston from 2007 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2011 was Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Forum of the Conservative Party. Since 2011 he has been a Cabinet member of Central Bedfordshire unitary authority.
Born in Cornwall, England, Versallion established his first business in 1988, a music promotions and equipment company, and was educated at the University of Westminster in business and economics. He then gained a master's degree in politics at the University of Reading, tutored by John Cottingham, and at Reading was elected chairman of post-graduates. After being admitted to the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Carlton Club, he gained a joint doctorate at the Universities of Oxford and Reading.
During the 1990s Versallion worked in the House of Commons as an aide to Cabinet Office Minister, Robert Hughes MP, and in 1996 was elected chairman of the Young Conservatives. In 1997 he joined BAE Systems, moving on from there to Capgemini. After working for U. S. Senator Rod Grams in the 2000 U.S. elections, Versallion returned home and founded the London marketing agency VML. He was its managing director in London and Minneapolis from 2001-11. In 2011, on his election to Central Bedfordshire Council, he gave up operational control of his company and became its chairman, making more time for politics. Versallion was a non-executive director of the North West London NHS Hospitals Trust from 2008-13 and since 2013 has been a non-executive director of the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital.
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