My Net Worth: Mark Knoff-Thomas, CEO, Newmarket Business Association

My Net Worth: Mark Knoff-Thomas, CEO, Newmarket Business Association
Mark Knoff-Thomas has a passion for languages, and is finally learning Welsh, his homeland's mother tongue. (Image: Supplied)
Daniel Dunkley
Mark Knoff-Thomas has represented roughly 3,100 companies and their 20,000 employees in the Auckland retail mecca of Newmarket for nearly a decade as CEO of its business association. In that role, he advocates for diversity in the area, championing its ethnic minorities and rainbow communities.  After dropping out of the University of Otago in his younger years, he completed a bachelor's degree in applied management, business transformation and change decades later at Otago Polytechnic. He has had a varied career across the UK and New...

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