Find Your Lightbulb Ltd was created by Mike Harris to  deliver:

-help to entrepreneurs in developing a perfect pitch for their businesses and finding sources of funding where appropriate

-Seminars, workshops, master classes , coaching, mentoring and implementation support on building high performance environments  to businesses of all sizes - this work is done in partnership with the Difference Engine inc

-Keynote speeches at corporate and public events 

all based  on the approach to implementing new ideas and creating new businesses described in his book Find Your Lightbulb

Mike Harris was born in 1949 in  Dudley, an industrial town in the heart of the UK. Having graduated in 1970 with a degree in chemistry from London University he spent the first part of his career in IT at Midland bank. 

In 1986 he  joined , venture funded  technology company, Space-Time Systems, as part of their Series C fund raising. Space-Time was sold in 1988 and Harris returned to Midland Bank to become founding CEO of the world’s first major telephone bank Firstdirect, which is now a subsidiary of HSBC .

.Between 1991 and 1995 he was Chief Executive of UK Telco Mercury Communications where he created a new consumer business which was later sold to NTL (now Virgin Media) for £2.5bn. He was also Chairman of the start up mobile operator –One to One which was later sold to T-Mobile for $10bn.

In 1995 he moved on to the position of founding CEO of Prudential Banking plc and then the CEO of its successor, Egg – which he took from concept to a billion pound public company in just 2 years. Egg was the first major internet bank in the world and for several years had more internet customers than any other bank. It is still regarded as the most successful of the internet banking start-ups and is now owned by Citi.

Having left Egg in 2005 he co-founded Garlik, which is now the UK’s leading supplier of   consumer identity protection software and is currently expanding into the US,  Germany  and Asia.Harris is  Chairman of Garlik which won the prestigious BT Flagship Award for innovation in 2008.  

In July 2009 Harris partnered with noted business coach Anurag Gupta to create the Difference Engine (UK) - a consultancy specialising in creating high performance business environments for SMEs and large companies alike.

Harris was Chair of Innovation at Royal Bank of Scotland  from 2005 until March 2009,  where he  supervised the establishment of  a group wide innovation programme.  He is a regular speaker and seminar leader on high performance environments, leadership, customer engagement, innovation  and digital world strategies.Between 1995 and 2008 he was a regular speaker at the mid career MBA course at the Sloan School of management at MIT where he also supervised a number of student research projects.