Michael de Kare-Silver is a leading business figure and is heavily involved in new technologies and digital and mobile marketing.
He has been a main board director for a number of leading companies. He has worked on the board at FTSE 100 level with GUS plc, heading up the Argos, Burberry and Experian web businesses. He has also led the smaller entrepreneurial start-up born2learn.com. Most recently he has been M.D. at Digitas ModemMedia and AKQA.
Recently Michael has developed a focused advisory practice with non-executive work at WIN plc and his own recruitment venture at Digital-Prospects.
Michael’s involvement in the digital scene started in 1996 with the publication of his best-selling book e-shock. e-shock has been translated into 6 languages and has sold more than 100,000 copies around the world. Two more books followed, Strategy in Crisis and recently Streamlining.
Michael’s career began in the early 1980’s when he joined Slaughter and May, the law firm, and qualified as a solicitor in the commercial M+A practice. He then moved to Procter & Gamble and started work in the advertising, sales and marketing departments. There he launched the Pampers brand in the UK and Germany, ran the hand soap category business and became a marketing director. Following that he joined McKinsey and subsequently set up his own marketing strategy boutique called Kalchas which became a highly successful firm operating in New York and London (Kalchas is now part of CSC Index Consulting).
Michael has contributed articles to many publications including the FT, Sunday Times and Management Today. He is active on the conference circuit and has been interviewed by Bloomberg TV, the silicon.com network and other publications.
Streamlining: Using new technologies and the Internet to transform performance
Strategy in Crisis: Why Business Urgently Needs a Completely New Approach