Mark Linton is the Founder of The Business Growth Network, a growing UK-wide business community created to help business owners build meaningful relationships, generate opportunities and grow their businesses through face-to-face and online networking.

With a background in business, events and community building, Mark has built The Business Growth Network around a simple principle: networking should lead to real conversations, real relationships and real business opportunities.

Under Mark’s leadership, the network has grown to bring together more than 1,300 businesses across the UK, with regular networking meetings, business lunches, online meetings, social events and large-scale Business Growth Shows.

Mark is also the driving force behind The Business Growth Show, bringing hundreds of business owners together to meet exhibitors, hear from experienced business leaders, take part in speed networking and discover practical ways to grow their businesses.

Before founding The Business Growth Network, Mark served in the British Army and later became a councillor. His experience in leadership, organising people and bringing communities together has strongly influenced the way he approaches business and networking.

Mark is also passionate about giving back. Over the years, he has helped organise and support fundraising initiatives that have raised thousands of pounds for charities.

Today, Mark continues to develop The Business Growth Network across the UK, working with local business partners and ambassadors to create a network that is accessible, practical and genuinely useful to business owners.

His approach is straightforward: put good people in the same room, create the right environment for conversations to happen, and give businesses the opportunity to build relationships that can make a real difference.