Mike Kapur OBE BSc (Hons) ACA FRSA
Pro-Chancellor
Mr Mike Kapur joined the University’s Board of Governors in 2009 serving as both a Governor and Deputy Chairman until his final term ended in 2018. He also served as a Trustee on Âéw¶¹´«Ã½ Students Union from 2012 to 2017 and his association with Âéw¶¹´«Ã½ dates back to when he graduated from the then Leicester Polytechnic in 1985 with an Honours Degree in Accounting and Computing.
Mike is a leading Leicestershire businessman who has 25 successful years of board room experience in both private and public sector organisations. He is a Chartered Accountant, having had successful careers at both KPMG and Ernst & Young, before taking a role as Group Finance Director in Industry.
He is currently Founder and Director of Signum Corporate Communications; Chairman of the National Space Centre; and Chairman of Leicester City Football Club Community Trust.
Mike has always been a strong advocate of public service and is a Trustee of Warning Zone, National Forest Company, and Derby College Group. Formerly, he was Chairman of the CBI’s SME Council, Deputy Chairman of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, and a Trustee of National Learning & Work Institute.
He served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire from 2015 before being appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire by Her Majesty The Queen in 2018, and in 2017 was made an OBE for Services to Science, Technology, Business & Enterprise in The Queens centenary Birthday Honours List.