Michael Ernst
Founding Partner. Digital Transformation, Growth & AI
- Consultative experience
- 15+ years
- Markets advised
- UK, EU, MENA, Google
- Sides of the table
- Agency, in-house, brand
Mike has spent more than fifteen years advising and leading inside global agency networks, in-house growth teams and complex international digital programmes. As a digital leader, strategist and consultative partner, his work sits at the intersection of strategy, technology and operations, helping organisations across the UK, Europe and the wider MENA region move from fragmented digital execution into structured growth.
His consultative experience spans growth and performance marketing, SEO, paid media, analytics, AI and the operating models that connect them. Most recently as Head of Digital, he built and scaled digital functions through senior leadership, technical fluency and process-driven thinking, turning data, technology and commercial outcomes into frameworks that teams could actually run.
Mike combines a Computer Science background with postgraduate marketing management, and has spent years translating between technical, commercial and creative teams across markets. The advisory work he is known for is the part that decides whether a digital transformation takes hold or quietly stalls.
- Senior digital advisory & consulting
- Performance marketing leadership
- SEO, paid media, analytics & AI
- Operating model & process design
- Computer Science + marketing management
- Cross-market agency & in-house experience