Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Mark Gwynne is an investment banker and a current project manager at Portfolio.
- He is also married to Emily Maitlis, a British-Canadian journalist who works for the BBC.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Mark Gwynne was born in England and raised in the countryside. He grew up in Shropshire.
- For his early education, he attended the Shrewsbury School in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, from 1980 to 1985.
- He was then at Peterhouse College at the University of Cambridge from 1985 to 1988. He graduated with a Master of Arts degree in History.
- From 1988 to 1990, Mark attended the Chancery Lane Law School in London.
- He met the woman who would become his wife, Emily Maitlis, while they were both working in Hong Kong.
- Mark was proposed to by Emily in January 2000, when they were both on a New Year’s holiday on the island of Mauritius. They got married in 2001 and had a joint Jewish and Catholic ceremony to honour both their faiths.
- Emily & Mark now have two children – sons Milo Atticus (born in 2005) and Max (born in 2007).
- Currently, Mark resides in Notting Hill, London, with his family.
Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :
- Gwynne has made his career in the lucrative & ever-changing world of investment banking.
- From March 1996 until August 1999, he lived in Hong Kong, where he worked for the capital markets and investment group company CLSA.
- From September 1999 to May 2007, he worked for Merrill Lynch, an American investment banking division of the Bank of America also dealing with wealth management. His role at Merrill Lynch was in the equity capital markets department.
- Since August 2007, Mark has been a portfolio manager for the firm Polygon Investment Management, which operates on a global level.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Mark frequently stays at the country estate his parents own and usually attends parties there with his wife Emily. She is not as used to living in the English countryside but it is a welcome distraction to her busy professional life.
- Mark grew up doing traditional upper-class sports such as polo, and he was also taught fishing, hunting, and shooting.
- His wife Emily is a presenter for BBC Newsnight. As part of her role, she interviewed Prince Andrew in December 2019. This was the only interview where he addressed accusations stemming from his alleged friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
- Mark’s eldest son, Milo Atticus is named after a Greek philosopher! Milo has been interested in politics since he was only twelve years old. He frequently discusses topics like communism, Brexit, and libertarianism with his parents.
- When Emily proposed to Mark on the beach, she also suggested them to elope right then and there, but Mark refused on the ground that he wanted his mother to attend the wedding.
- Gwynne is also a trustee for organisations like The Shackleton Foundation, Kings Shropshire and Herefordshire Light Infantry Combined Charitable Trust.
I recently did some family research and came across Ward Gwynne who as a connection I reside in Shropshire. I am known as the Gwynne family historian, which I have traced back to circa A.D.200!
Thomas Gwynne.