Mark Francis Russell

{{Short description|British businessman (born 1960)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| office = Chief Executive, Shareholder Executive

| minister = Vince Cable (until May 2015), Sajid Javid (since May 2015)

| predecessor = Stephen Lovegrove

| primeminister = David Cameron

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|5|22|df=yes}}

| term_start = April 2013

| term_end = November 2019

}}

Mark Francis Russell (born May 1960) is a British businessman and public servant, who since 2019 has chaired Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), the procurement organisation of the UK Ministry of Defence. Previously he was the chief executive of the British government's Shareholder Executive from 2013, and chief executive of the successor body UK Government Investments from 2016 to 2019.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U250925|title=RUSSELL, Mark Francis|last=A & C Black|date=2015|website=www.ukwhoswho.com|series=Who's Who 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=2016-03-06|edition=online}}

Russell joined ShEx in 2004 as the director of Corporate Finance Practice, becoming its deputy chief executive in 2007, and chief executive in 2013 after Stephen Lovegrove moved to be the permanent secretary of the Department of Energy and Climate Change.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/mark-russell|title=Mark Russell - GOV.UK|website=www.gov.uk|access-date=2016-03-08}}{{Cite web |date=8 April 2013 |title=Mark Russell confirmed as Chief Executive of Shareholder Executive |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mark-russell-confirmed-as-chief-executive-of-shareholder-executive |access-date=2016-03-08 |website=GOV.UK}} As of September 2015, Russell was paid a salary of between £160,000 and £164,999, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/492289/150K_senior_salaries.csv/preview|title=Senior officials 'high earners' salaries as at 30 September 2015 - GOV.UK|date=2015-12-17|website=www.gov.uk|access-date=2016-02-28}}

He took up the role of chair of DE&S in November 2019,{{Cite web |last=Vogel |first=Ben |date=30 July 2019 |title=Russell to chair DE&S from November |url=https://www.janes.com/article/90179/russell-to-chair-de-s-from-november |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730190929/https://www.janes.com/article/90179/russell-to-chair-de-s-from-november |archive-date=30 July 2019 |website=Jane's 360 |via=Internet Archive}} continuing for a time as vice chair of UKGI. Since February 2021 he has been chair of railway rolling stock company Angel Trains.