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Mark Melvin

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Partner - Venture Growth at Creative Dock Group
📍 London, England, United Kingdom

Mark is a commercial leader specializing in scaling tech-enabled businesses across the UK and the Middle East, with extensive experience in Saudi Arabia since 2011. He focuses on venture creation, AI-first transformation, and market expansion in non-executive and advisory roles. He holds a BSc in Economics with German from Loughborough University.

Through his firm Valbon Ventures, Mark manages personal investments in early-stage ventures and consumer brands. A notable passion project is his ownership stake in the football club AFC Wimbledon. He has also recently expressed an interest in attending golf, snooker, and boxing events while in Riyadh.

He is a part-owner of the professional football club AFC Wimbledon.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Partner - Venture Growth
Job Level
Senior
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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Venture Building
His career at Mach49 and Creative Dock focuses on helping large corporations build and scale new ventures, and he reflects on this topic in his posts.
KSA Market Expansion
He has worked in Saudi Arabia since 2011 and is actively helping companies, like Abstract Group, expand into the KSA market.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Partner - Venture Growth
Creative Dock Group
9-2025
Non Executive Director
Abstract Group
1-2016
Non Executive Director
Advanced Ebtikar Arabia Company
5-2025
Managing Partner
Valbon Ventures
4-2023 - 9-2025
Vice President - EMEA
Mach49
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Education
2007 - 2010
Economics with German BSc
Loughborough University
2000 - 2007
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St Mary's Comprehensive, Menston
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