Mark Anthony Gaius Versallion is a British politician, businessman, and officer in the Royal Naval Reserve.

[2] After being admitted to the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Carlton Club, he gained a joint doctorate at the Universities of Oxford and Reading.

[2] During the 1990s Versallion worked in the House of Commons as an aide to Cabinet Office Minister, Robert Hughes MP, and in 1996 was elected chairman of the Young Conservatives.

[3][4] After working for U. S. Senator Rod Grams in the 2000 U.S. elections, Versallion returned home and founded the London marketing agency VML.

[5][6] In 2011, on his election to Central Bedfordshire Council, he gave up operational control of his company and became its chairman, making more time for politics.

[12] He is a graduate of the Joint Services Command and Staff College and of the NATO School at Oberammergau, Germany[10] and held the rank of Lieutenant.

[16] In nine years at Harrow he held roles in Performance and Finance, Education, and Children and Young People, and Chief Whip when there was a Tory majority of one.

[17] He served on the Deputy Lieutenants' Committee 2007-11,[18] and due to his naval experience was the Council's representative on the Reserve Forces and Cadets Association.

In 2012-13 Versallion converted ten schools' age ranges, bringing to an end the decades-long arguments over the three tier education system in Bedfordshire.