MARK COLERIDGE SCOTT is a director of Lake Capital Management, a principal investment group specialising in investing in professional service firms. He was formerly Executive Vice President and a founder at Lighthouse Global Network, a global marketing services group that was acquired by Cordiant Communications Group plc in August 2000. Before Lighthouse he served as Operations Director at WPP Group plc and prior to this worked for a number of years as a management consultant in Europe and the USA. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and was educated at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He is the author of Value Drivers, The Professional Service Firm and Reinspiring the Corporation, all published by John Wiley & Sons.