Mark Cubit, Beacon Director 

Mark Cubit is Melbourne based. After earning a Bachelor of Economics at Monash University he found himself in Japan promoting Australia as a tourist destination for the Australian Tourist Commission and then as an investment destination with Mcintosh Securities Limited (now Merrill Lynch Equities Australia). In 1991 Mark continued this latter role in London before returning to Australia in 1994.

Figuring you can only do the same thing for so long, Mark concluded his time at Merrill Lynch in 2003 as Managing Director in charge of Institutional Equity Sales to Melbourne and Asian based clients.
 
After leaving the finance industry Mark has divided his time between managing equity portfolios and contributing to the not-for-profit sector.

The latter has been in a voluntary role (three years with The Smith Family in fund raising and managing the Victorian Toy and Hamper Appeal), philanthropic role (Trustee of Planet Wheeler Foundation and Cubit Family Foundation), advisory role to a number of Australian and offshore based organisations and finally as a board member of The Beacon Foundation and Good Beginnings Australia.