Michael Landau

Michael is Financial Adviser to the Chairman, an experienced Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and was formerly Group Chief Financial Officer of Lyca Group – a role he held for over 11 years.

Michael has entrepreneurial Board experience in both public and private Companies, as a CFO as well as in Corporate Development. Michael also has experience as a Senior Management Consultant at Price Waterhouse London, in which he became a specialist in global cash management, as well as Corporate Finance consultancy experience in the United States, the Middle East, and India via his own boutique firm. Prior to joining the Lyca Mobile Group, Michael was Group CFO in a Hong Kong and Singapore Group that built a technology manufacturing operation in Northern France.

He has been Chief Financial Officer in Kalido, a technology company owned by Royal Dutch Shell, steering Kalido to an exit from Shell via an MBO backed by two leading Venture Capital organisations. Michael was also head of Corporate Development and External Financial Relationships, and the main Board Director for Staffware plc, an international technology BPM Group. Whilst at Staffware, he took it from AIM to a full Techmark listing on the London Stock Exchange and closed two international acquisitions.

In addition, Michael has senior Corporate Treasury experience: most recently as Group Treasury and Tax Director in Rank Group Plc, a major international leisure and gaming company in which he gained a significant amount of experience in the banking, bond, and credit markets. Michael has also been Treasury and Credit Director with the international technology group Madge Networks N.V which listed on NASDAQ and in which he led the finance team for the acquisition of a large Israeli subsidiary.