Mark Esho
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Mark Esho

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Mark Abayomi Esho is a British entrepreneur. He is the founder and co-owner of both Easy Internet Services Ltd and Easy Internet Solutions Ltd. Mark was born in Leicestershire in 1962. At the age of five, he contracted polio, leaving him paralysed from the neck down. He was originally given a 10% chance of survival but was eventually able to regain limited mobility Mark moved to Nigeria at the age of eight to start mainstream school, before returning to Leicester at 18. He later completed an MBA at De Montfort University. Business career: Mark worked for seven years in Leicester as a Service Manager for Mosaic, a local charity. Due to chronic fatigue caused by his childhood polio, he decided to start his own business instead of continuing a nine-to-five job. Mark started Houses-Online in 1999, a property listing website. The project ended shortly afterwards, and Esho started a second business in 2000 under the name Rank4U. At the time it was one of only four search engine optimisation companies in the UK, and serviced clients including The Guardian and The Co-operative Group. In the following years, Mark developed two companies simultaneously: Easy Internet Services (search engine optimisation, now under the name 123 Ranking) and Easy Internet Solutions (later Free Virtual Servers, later FVS Hosting). Both businesses were early adopters of employing remote workers, and Mark has been a vocal supporter of remote monitoring software for employees. In 2016 Mark became a member of Rotary. First starting at the Rotary Leicester club before joining Leicester Novus Rotary club a year later. Recognition: - Mark was the winner of first ever National Diversity Award for Business Excellence in September. - Mark was interviewed on BBC Radio Leicester about his own story and government support for disabled job seekers. - In July 2013, Mark met with Prime Minister David Cameron and featured as a case study as part of the government's Disability Confident programme. Mark's continued support for disabled employees and job seekers in the UK has also been cited by the government's Great Business initiative and the Minister of State for Disabled People at the time, Mike Penning. - In 2016, Easy Internet Solutions became a patron of the Leicestershire Law Society. Later the same year, he was nominated at the Institute of Directors East Midlands Director of the Year Awards, which took place on 30 June 2016. He was awarded a Highly Commended certificate in the category of "Director of the Year SME – Small".

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    • My Story of Overcoming Abuse, Disability and Racism
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