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Michael de Kare-Silver is a leading adviser in the whole digital/e-commerce and mobile arena, identifying opportunities for technology-enabled change and business growth through new strategies, go-to-market plans and team-building.

He has been main board director for a number of leading companies. From main board at FTSE 100 company GUS plc, heading up Argos.co.uk, Experian and Burberry online through to start-ups born2learn.com and myfaveshop.com. He has also been MD at major digital/tech/marketing agencies Digitas and AKQA delivering innovative solutions for global brands.

His advisory/consulting work started with McKinsey, then with his own firm Kalchas which he grew to over 100 consultants with offices in London and NY, joint-ventured with Ernst & Young and finally merged with CSC.

Today, Michael runs his own firm Digital Prospects which provides specialist advisory, consultancy and team-building support in the digital/mobile/e-commerce sectors, helping organizations map out their strategy and plans to capture the growing multi-channel opportunity and then to build the best teams to deliver that.

Michael is also a non-executive director at WINplc the mobile technology solutions provider.

A detailed biog is available on Linkedin.