Lee is a founder of Cantarus and, after leaving Accenture as one of their top-performing Consultants, has led the business from a three-man start-up to one of the largest digital agencies in the North of England. Under his leadership, Cantarus has grown to employ circa sixty people, win innumerable UK and global awards and serve a world-class client list of approaching one hundred organisations in the UK and internationally. A strong technologist, Lee has over twenty years’ experience delivering success in ‘digital’ to organisations large and small. His skillset encompasses the ‘big picture’ of digital strategy as well as a deep understanding of day-to-day operational delivery. He is passionate about equipping organisations with the structure, people, processes, technology and data to create a consistent model for success. His client-and outcome-centric approach has created an agency in Cantarus with an outstanding reputation, best represented by its industry-leading Net Promoter Score consistently exceeding +82.

Lee has worked at senior and executive levels in virtually every sector of the economy and has particularly deep expertise in membership, infrastructure services, web, mobile apps and eCommerce. He has helped dozens of leading organisations achieve success including WHSmith, Institute of Directors, Worldpay, Royal College of GPs, Barclays, Stroke Association, Sports Direct, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, University of Chicago, United Utilities, The Children’s Society, INTO University Partnerships, Chartered Institute of Building, Cambridge Assessment and a plethora of public sector organisations.

As our COO, Mike has crucial responsibility for operational delivery across the business and works with our various managers, consultants, and delivery teams to champion client success.

Mike joined Cantarus in 2009 as our first non-founder employee and has since risen through the business to his current position. During his time with the business, Mike has successfully led dozens of client projects for large, multinational, organisations in retail, not for profit, membership, and commercial organisations including for the likes of the Institute of Directors (IoD), The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, WHSmith and Frasers Group. Under Mike’s operational leadership, Cantarus has grown into one of the largest agencies in the North of England, that has consistently delivered high levels of customer satisfaction and world-class digital solutions to our circa 90 clients and partners.

Mike has a highly technical background, having graduated top of his year in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, and, as such, places a great deal of emphasis on the quality of the technical solutions we deliver to the market.