Sir Keith Edward Mills, GBE DL (born 15 May, 1950) is an English entrepreneur and deputy chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Early life
Mills was born in Brentwood. He attended St Martin's School, Brentwood on Hanging Hill Lane in Hutton, Brentwood.
Career
Mills worked for over twenty years in marketing and advertising. Having left school with no qualifications, he started with The Economist at the age of fifteen as a copy assistant and then at the Financial Times and Investors Chronicle, where he was responsible for their marketing programmes. From there, he moved into advertising in London. In 1981, he led a management buyout of the London office of the New York-based company Nadler & Larimer, becoming the chief executive. In 1985, he co-founded Mills, Smith & Partners.
He was also a non-executive director at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club but stepped down in January 2016.
In 2011, Mills was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Laws) from the University of Bath. He received an Honorary Degree from the University of Essex in 2013.