Mark Georgevic, director of Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care

Serving as director at Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care might seem like an inevitable calling for Mark Georgevic, who celebrated 25 years at the company this year. After all, the company was set up by his grandfather and further developed under his father. However, for the first act of his working life, Georgevic pursued a career in law.

‘I worked as a solicitor for a large firm in London for several years and was actually working as a corporate lawyer in Bermuda when my father told me he wanted me to come back and join Scrivens,’ says Georgevic. ‘He didn’t think there was a full-time role for a lawyer though so he asked me to learn more about the business and qualify as a hearing aid dispenser. That was in 1993 and I moved back to the UK. To be honest, I was quite apprehensive because my science was never brilliant, but I qualified in 1996 after completing a chunk of pre-reg training in addition to passing practical exams.’