Mike Brown Bio

Mike joined Elysian in 2025, bringing with him a wealth of operational and private equity experience. Prior to joining, he held leadership roles across private and publicly held businesses and in a mid-market PE fund. Most recently, Mike worked as Chief Operating Officer at Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS), a global private equity backed recruitment outsourcing company, where he drove a digitalisation and operational transformation agenda. Before this he spent over six years at Doughty Hanson as Operating Partner where he was involved in several successful acquisitions and exits. Between 2008-2011, Mike worked as Sales and Marketing Director for Royal Mail Group’s parcels products – overseeing more than £1.5bn in revenue and leading the launch of Royal Mail Tracked. Prior to moving into industry he spent ten years at McKinsey & Company, latterly as an Associate Principle. Mike holds a degree from Oxford University and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford.