events

CMI lecture by video link

Leading change in the digitial economy

Video link to John Bray theatre, Wednesday 20th March 3:00 - 4:30

Mike Harris

Mike Harris has been a director of Egg since 29 October 1999. He joined Prudential as Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Banking plc in July 1995 and the Egg division from October 1998. On 1 January 2001 he stepped down as Chief Executive and took on the role of Executive Vice-Chairman of the Board.

Before joining Prudential, he served for four years as a main board director of Cable and Wireless, one of the UK's largest public companies. He grew Mercury profits from £100 million to £219 million and turnover rose from under £1 billion to around £1.7billion per annum. He negotiated the sale of 20% of Mercury to Bell Canada Enterprises and built a partnership with Cable TV Industry culminating in the flotation of Bell Cable Media. He co-stewarded with Dick Callahan of US West to launch a new mobile telephone company (One-2-One).

Before this Mike was Chief Executive of First Direct, where he completed implementation and launch of what was essentially the first new bank in the UK for many years, building a new brand in the process. He had managed the business through successful high growth - 200,000 accounts and 600 staff by the end of 1991.

CMI

CMI - the Cambridge-MIT Institute - has had a presence at Adastral Park since 2001. The CMI "distinguished lecture" series features world-class speakers talking by video link to locations around the world on a range of topics under the general heading "innovation at the boundaries". Further information about CMI and the series is available from http://www.cmi.cam.ac.uk/ but please note that if you are based at Adastral Park and attending a Park venue, you should NOT reserve seats through the normal CMI route: seats are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.