New Members of The Ark Board

Mark Kennedy is a Chartered Accountant, and a member of the Global Executive Board of Mazars, the international audit, accountancy and advisory firm.

A practicing auditor, since joining Mazars in 1995 he has worked primarily with large corporate, Government and public sector clients, both in Ireland and internationally. He has acted in a number of leadership roles in Mazars including Head of Audit (Ireland), Managing Partner (Ireland) and Member of the Executive Board, U.K.

He has been an advisor to a number of public inquiries and was the Chair of the Homelessness Oversight Group in 2012/2013.

Elish Bul-Godley is a content marketing consultant. On an average day, she helps businesses, brands and organisations grow through Content Strategy & Creation, Content & Copywriting, Brand Marketing, Mentoring, Training and Social Media & Community Management.

Elish is currently working at the following organisations:

• Content Plan Digital Marketing Agency. Agency clients include Local Enterprise offices, Enterprise Ireland and Failte Ireland, including several client SMEs.
• She is also a Greenedge Dublin event and engagement agency member, which provides engagement and workshopping services to organisations, brands and state bodies.
• Elish is also working with the higher education sector as a Lecturer in the Postgraduate Diploma courses for UCD Professional Academy and is also working with the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies on developing their Social media Content.

She loves playing with ALL the toys in the content toolbox: from print and promotional products right up to experiential events, not just your everyday digital platforms and applications. At ease with the whole marketing mix offline and online.