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Mike Follett
Mike Follett is Managing Director of Lumen. Mike started his career as a planner at BMP DDB, before moving to New York to head up Tribal DDB’s strategy unit, and then to Mumbai to be Group Head of Planning for DDB India. In 2011, he moved back to Britain to be strategy director on Tesco for The Red Brick Road. He started Lumen in 2013.
Mike read History at Oxford and received his MBA from Imperial College, London.
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