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Mark practiced law in Hawaiʻi for five years before joining the Washington, DC office of U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye, where he handled issues related to agriculture and the environment. Mark joined The Nature Conservancy in 2000 and serves as Hawaiʻi’s Director of External Affairs. As the program’s primary government relations liaison, Mark works closely with policy and decision-makers to develop policies and secure funding in support of conservation. He has helped to increase state funding for conservation to more than $20 million annually and secure federal funds to add more than 100,000 acres to Hawaiʻi’s network of protected areas. (Interviewed by Kim Hum, October 2016.)