Michael Lockett

Sir Michael Vernon Lockett (born 1948) is a British businessman, public relations expert, marketer and events organiser.

The son of an Army officer, and worked for Grey Advertising from 1970 to 1975, when he started his own business live marketing, WCT Live; he remained its chairman until 1997, when he sold it to Caribiner International Inc. for $11.7m; he was the chairman of Caribiner Europe until 1999.

Lockett was in charge of the Prime Minister John Major's presentation unit during the 1992 general election. his company, Live Productions, was hired to organise the event and attracted criticism after failing to post 3,000 of the 10,500 public tickets on time.

From 2000 to 2008, Lockett was chairman of Live Communications, Between 2011 and 2013, he was chief executive of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Foundation He was also involved in organising the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony in London. His company, Aura Events (of which he was chairman from 2005 to 2012 ), was also responsible for the opening of The Shard building in London.