Building on extensive corporate and strategic HR consulting experience, Mike set up the first research-driven, executive search business in Cape Town. His early career was with Ford Motor Company, SABMiller and Sperry Univac (later Unisys Africa), as HR Director. As a director of Renwick Executive Search in the 1990s, Mike held the group record for individual cumulative billings. He joined Adcorp in 2006 to develop their top-end and global search capability and was appointed Managing Partner of Adcorp Search Partners in 2009, until the 2013 merger with Search Partners International. He has personally completed well over 300 board level search assignments across all functions and many industries – especially Consumer / Retail (including FMCG, Agriculture and Hospitality); Industrial & Automotive; and Financial & Professional Services.