Personal Life
Beretta is married to Rachel and has 2 children, Ava and Daniel.
In 2010, he completed a 1,400km Tour De Cure bike ride from Sydney to Mooloolaba over ten days, raising $1.8-million to help find a cure for cancer. Mark also completed the 2011 Tour De Cure ride over 1,400km from Sydney to Melbourne, raising over $2-million for cancer research and treatment.
In 2011, he was appointed to the Board of Tour De Cure.
Mark completed his third Tour de Cure ride in 2012, covering the longest ever distance of 1,656km, from Brisbane to Mission Beach, in 10 days to raise over $2.2-million for cancer research, treatment and prevention.
He won his first Australian water ski championship in the Junior Boys Jump event in 1980, at Glenelg in Adelaide.
Beretta represented Victoria for 16 years, winning 10 Australian water ski championships.
He part of the Water Ski Show at World Expo '88 in Brisbane.
Beretta coached water skiing in the USA and Japan. He was coach of the Japanese Team in 1989.
After graduating from Swinburne University, Melbourne, he worked for BHP and Honeywell.
He is an Ambassador for the RAISE Foundation, which assists young people in crisis.
Mark is also an Ambassador for the Fight Cancer Foundation, and the Australian Paramedic Support Foundation.
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