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Mike Harris was the founding CEO of telephone bankFirstdirect and internet bank Egg; he created two one-billion poundbusinesses and was credited worldwide. In between thesecommitments, he was chief executive of Mercury Communications, thenthe main competitor to BT, where he created an iconic brand andbuilt a multi-billion pound consumer business. He was also chairmanof mobile phone company Mercury One-2-One during its early years.One-2-One was bought by T-mobile for $10 billion in 1999. He is currently chairman and co-founder of digital identity expertsGarlik - a company which was created in 2005 in order to giveindividuals and their families more power over the way theirinformation is used in the digital world. It has the inventor ofthe World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee - on its advisoryboard. Mike is also chairman of innovation at the Royal Bank of Scotland.he was a regular speaker at mid-career MBA courses at the MIT SloanSchool of Management between 1996 and 2006 and he often speaks atpublic seminars and runs private workshops on leadership,innovation and entrepreneurship. His clients have includedO2, IBM, Colt, Intel, Oracle, Adobe and EDS.