Marcus has over 43 years’ experience in the fire industry including 32 years with the London Fire Brigade (LFB).
He gained extensive operational experience by attending thousands of incidents during his time at various fire stations across London. This hands-on experience provided him with a deep understanding of firefighting and emergency response. During his time in the fire service, Marcus also served as a multi-discipline training officer teaching subjects as diverse as first aid, physical fitness, breathing apparatus, incident command and fire safety, teaching personnel at all levels of the service. Marcus also spent several years as a fire safety enforcement officer inspecting a wide variety of buildings and conducting consultations for local authority. He then returned to fire safety later in his career as part of the London Fire Brigades Wembley Stadium redevelopment team.
In the latter part of Marcus’ career, he served as a Senior Fire Safety Officer providing valuable advice and support to incident commanders, focusing on fire safety facilities within buildings and their utilisation during operational incidents, and assisting to bring incidents to a safe and successful conclusion. He retired from the LFB in 2011 having obtained senior rank.
On retirement, Marcus continued working in the fire industry training personnel of the LFB as part of the newly privatised training contract. He Initially managed the recruit and breathing apparatus training departments responsible for the competencies of thousands of brigade personnel. He went on to manage and facilitate incident command training for fire officers of all ranks including time spent at the international fire college based in the Cotswolds.
Since the Grenfell fire tragedy, Marcus has been working in the residential property management industry utilising his knowledge and experience to assist in making some of the effected buildings safer to live in.
Marcus’ previous role prior to joining Alcema was as the ‘Fire and Life Safety Compliance Manager’ for a large professional freeholder and asset management company with a portfolio of over 10,000 mainly residential buildings.
He has served on several industry safety committees including, for the past four years, Chairing the ‘British Property Federation, Building Safety Sounding Board’.
The boards objectives are:
- To Steer the real estate industry’s response to the Government building and fire safety legislation.
- To promote best practise in the real estate industry.