Marcus Evans

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Marcus Evans is an English businessman with links to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk and believed to have been born in 1963. His eponymous company marcus evans (rendered in lower case letters) is an international business events and information company with four principle areas of business activity:

Business Events: brings B2B buyers and sellers together at over 2,000 conferences, summits and congresses annually.
Business Training: training programmes in a variety of formats including Professional Training, Financial Training, Language Training and Industry Sector Training.
Corporate Hospitality: provides hospitality at sporting and cultural events. This was the field in which Evans began his career in the 1980s.
Business Information: provides subscription research products and publications

marcus evans employs more than 3,500 people in over thirty countries around the globe delivering intelligence and business products across a full range of commercial sectors, including Capital Markets, Life Sciences, Defence, Healthcare, Information technology and Legal.

Marcus Evans the individual maintains a low profile. He is a tax exile. In 2006 MoneyWeek reported that he was believed to be 43 years old, and that there were no publicly available photographs of him. ^[1]

In 2007 Ipswich Town Football Club announced that Marcus Evans would be buying a controlling stake in the club subject to contracts, due diligence and shareholder approval. The proposed deal would see Evans purchase Ipswich Town's £32 million debts with Aviva (Norwich Union) and Barclays Bank. The official announcement did not stake the terms of this deal: various unsourced media reports speculated that he was paying anything between 20 pence and 100 pence in the pound, without giving sources. ^[2] He would also inject £12 million into the club in exchange for an issue of new shares, which would give him a 87.5% stake, and reduce the existing shareholders stake to 12.5%. ^[3] The deal was finalised following an EGM on 17 December 2007, at which the proposal was backed by shareholders speaking for 98.9% of the stock. [1] David Sheepshanks has retained his position as club chairman.