Taking 'Control': Asset Control CEO Mark Hepsworth
The industry veteran reflects on his career so far, and outlines the opportunities he sees for Asset Control under his leadership.

Mark Hepsworth has been almost continuously traveling for several weeks. But the new chief executive of Asset Control, who has spent this period of his role on a grand tour of the company’s clients all over the world, doesn’t have the look of an exhausted traveler, nor of someone weighed down by the responsibility of bringing change to a company with a staid reputation, which Asset Control’s private equity owners no doubt hope he can achieve.
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