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Mark Francis

Serial entrepreneur and CEO of Preferrd (HR tech), Hong Kong, with experience in HRTech, fintech, and executive search across Asia-Pacific since 2007.

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PODCASTS

Sep 15, 2026

Future Ventures: Scaling with Clarity

Future Ventures: Scaling with Clarity

Mark Francis — Scaling Beyond the Founder: How to Build a Team You Can Trust | FV Podcast Ep. 69

Sep 15 · 55m

Maxim AtanassovHOST

4:06

Yeah.

Mark FrancisGUEST

4:06

That's all a part of it.

Mark FrancisGUEST

4:07

But I think that there are obviously ways that you can be more interconnected than ever now.

Mark FrancisGUEST

4:11

You know, using things like Slack, communicating on Slack internally.

Mark FrancisGUEST

4:15

Um, certainly that's something that I've used with my teams.

Mark FrancisGUEST

4:18

Uh, and over the last sort of six years we've, you know, we kind of got into remote working early.

Mark FrancisGUEST

4:23

Um, so I mentioned I, my background was primarily in the recruitment space.

9 MINS LATER

Maxim AtanassovHOST

13:35

Mm-hmm.

Entrepreneur Stories

Entrepreneur Stories

Mark Francis | Failing and Scaling - A Serial Entrepreneur's Playbook

Jul 1 · 1h 25m

Rasheed ShroffHOST

5:06

Can you give us your sort of five minute journey? Sure,

Mark FrancisGUEST

5:09

sure.

Mark FrancisGUEST

5:10

So look, for myself, I was born in Hong Kong, grew up here, went to the ESF system, as you did as well.

Mark FrancisGUEST

5:17

My parents actually come to Hong Kong in the 60s.

Mark FrancisGUEST

5:19

So my dad came here as 19 years old.

Mark FrancisGUEST

5:21

My mom was 11.

Mark FrancisGUEST

5:22

So they were quite young when they came to Hong Kong.

5 MINS LATER

Rasheed ShroffHOST

10:34

was that?