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.
Ivan Filby
Ivan Filby has had a distinguished career in higher education. He has a Ph.D. in Management and a MA in Evangelism. He taught at The University of Dublin: Trinity College for sixteen years before moving to the USA to chair the Management Department at Greenville University. Following a year as business school dean at Point Loma Nazarene University, Ivan returned to Greenville U to serve as its 12th president. He moved to Northern Ireland in 2020 for family reasons, where he writes, consults in Christian higher education, and helps pastor a local Free Methodist Church. Ivan is an ordained minister in the Free Methodist Church.
Ivan has authored two previous books: Livestream: Learning to minister in the power of the Holy Spirit (2021) and Speak Tenderly: Prophetic ministry seasoned with grace (2023).
Ivan and Kathie have been married for 32 years and have two grown children living in Chicago and Los Angeles.
He follows Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and his home team, King’s Lynn Town.
Ivan has run 21 fewer marathons than his co-author Mike Elms.
