Mark Waites is Joint Creative Director and founding partner of Mother. He started his career in London where he worked for several agencies including BMP, Leagas Delaney and O&M.

In '92 he moved to New York and worked for a couple of agencies with a 6 month break in-between shops to ride a motorcycle from Alaska to the tip of South America.

Almost 7 years ago Mark moved back to London to be one of four people who started Mother. For the past 2 years Mother has been voted 'Agency of the Year' and Mark and his creative partner Robert Saville voted 'Creative Directors of the Year' by Campaign magazine. Recently Mother opened in New York.

When he's not writing ads Mark is the undisputed king of the unfinished screenplay having failed to finish hundreds. A short film he wrote and directed was accepted into over 20 film festivals around the World in 2003 and picked up 'Best Short' in five of them.

He lives in London with his wife, Nikki.

Mark is to attend the seminar 'Lying, the key to successful third person biographies' some time in February.