Mark Perl

I help my clients overcome their fears and concerns when face-to-face business networking at events or when networking using online platforms, specifically LinkedIn.I'm also an MC, conference facilitator, compere and an after dinner speaker

Researched and developed niche-market branding, public relations and sales and marketing strategies. Established supplier relationships - negotiated sales agreements. Conducted public presentations - participated in local and international trade shows. Negotiated with large company boards and individual business owners. Marketed to high net worth individuals. Combined use of interactive skills: lobbying, mediating, persuading and consensus building. Developed print materials, websites and contact strategies

The largest contract catering company in South Africa, at that time. Alongside fixed site operations I launched the company’s first outdoor catering, corporate hospitality and special events division, operating at large scale social, sporting and corporate events, governmental events and also undertaking hospitality-marquee and box-catering at sports stadiums. I had a full-time staff in excess of five hundred, on separate sites, and casual staff numbers regularly exceeding a further two hundred and fifty.

Far Eastern Gastronomy