TALK Management recommends Michael De Kare-Silver as a Business Speaker, After Dinner Speaker, and Keynote Conference Speaker.


Michael de Kare-Silver is a leading advisor on e-business and the Internet. He was a main board director at GUS (Great Universal Stores), a FTSE Top 50 company, in charge of e-commerce, is presently a Director at Thus plc (formally Scottish Telecom) and at the Cambridge Technology Centre and previously with Flying Brands (a successful Jersey-based mail order operation). He is also a visiting professor at Middlesex University Business School.

He has consulted widely with management teams across Europe and North America on the commercial and strategic impact of new technologies, the Net and wireless, and has advised on a number of business transformation programs. Clients have included Astra Zeneca, ICI, Brooks Brothers, Nestlé and CGNU.

He is a well-known business commentator having written four books, including the best-selling
Strategy in Crisis and E-shock. His latest book Stre@mlining was published in 2002. He has contributed articles to many publications including the FT, Sunday Times and Management Today, is active on the conference circuit and has been interviewed by Bloomberg TV and the silicom.com network.

Michael de Kare-Silver began his career with the law firm Slaughter and May in London. Having read Law at Cambridge University, he then went on to qualify as a commercial lawyer, working on a number of mergers and acquisitions transactions. After two years, Michael de Kare-Silver then joined Procter & Gamble. Working in sales, marketing and brand management, he was responsible for several new product launches across Europe and became a Marketing Manager in the soaps and shampoos category. He also won the Top Salesman.

Moving on from Procter & Gamble, Michael de Kare-Silver went into the consultancy profession. In 1985 he joined McKinsey, where he worked for three years on a range of international assignments, having to do mostly with consumer goods and financial services. In 1988 he set up his own consultancy operation called the Kalchas Group. Kalchas became a significant player in the strategy consultancy field. It grew to approximately 100 people with offices in London and New York, and a joint venture in India. Ernst & Young acquired 10% of the firm in 1993 to add to its consultancy services. In 1997 Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) acquired the whole firm, looking for Kalchas to lead its strategy consulting and growing e-commerce activities in Europe and North America. Michael de Kare-Silver became a Vice President there, and a member of the CSC European Management Committee. In 1999 he left CSC and joined Great Universal Stores. He is presently head of e-business at PA Consulting.

Michael De Kare-Silver is available to book as Business Speaker, After Dinner Speaker and Keynote Conference Speaker on subjects which include: Business, Management, E-Business, IT, the Internet, and Technology.


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