Mark attended Boston University on athletic scholarship where he studied Broadcast Journalism and Philosophy but failed to graduate.

At TVNZ he produced several of the first fully interactive TVCs in the world, he was initiator and project manager of the first website in New Zealand (and possibly the world), with realtime insurance quotes for Sun Direct Insurance and was a critical part of the team that pitched and won the direct response work from Telecom’s XTRA during its launch.

Mark’s uncle is Sir Doug Graham, Minister of Justice and Minister of Treaty Negotiations in the National Government in the early 1990s and another uncle, Dr Kennedy Graham, a former Green Party Member of Parliament and ex-Secretary General of Parliamentarians for Global Action and a number of UN-attached NGOs.

In 2016 he had major complications following a shoulder repair operation, resulting in chronic brachial neuritis and phrenic nerve palsy.

He ran as a candidate for Auckland Council Governing Body on the City Vision ticket in 2019 but was hit by a driver while taking his daughter to her gym class on his Vespa, suffering a concussion, whiplash and broken ribs.