Mike Elms

Mike has more than 40 years’ experience in business, marketing and advertising. As UK CEO of two major ad agencies, Ogilvy & Mather and Tempus Group plc, he has worked with a wide range of blue-chip companies at C-Suite level, including: Unilever, Nestle, Ford, Mercedes, Chrysler, DHL, Shell and Guinness.

He now runs his own management consultancy supplying strategic business and marketing advice, together with Non-Executive Director input to start-up companies in the marketing, communications and leisure sectors. 

An active Christian, Mike is Chair of Trustees at Christian Publishing & Outreach. Previously he has been Vice Chair at ChurchAds.Net, creators of the long-running ‘Christmas Starts with Christ’ advertising campaign. He has worked with several major Christian organizations, including MAF and TWR Radio; and has been an Anglican Churchwarden and a Baptist Deacon. An experienced lay preacher, he has also contributed to ‘Thought for the Day’ on Radio Kent.

Mike has now turned his hand to writing. ‘Parables: Rewired’ is his first book, and he is currently working on his second: ‘Proverbs: Restitched in Time’.

In his leisure time, he has run 21 marathons and gained a private pilot’s license.

He is married to Valerie, and they have three daughters & four grandchildren.