Keith Mills

Sir Keith Edward Mills GBE DL (born 15 May 1950, Brentwood) is an English entrepreneur and deputy chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Early life

He attended Brentwood St Martin's County Secondary School for Boys 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 found Mills, Smith & Partners. He is also a non-executive director at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

In 2011, Mills was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Laws) from the University of Bath

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Keith Mills (footballer)

Keith David Mills (born 29 December 1942 in Egham, Surrey) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League, as a right half.

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Keith Mills (Royal Marines officer)

Captain Keith Paul Mills, DSC (born June 1959) is a British Royal Marines officer who commanded the defence of South Georgia against the 1982 Argentine invasion.

Military Service

Falklands War

Early on 3 April 1982, Mills received a radio message from HMS Endurance relaying instructions from London that he should make only a token resistance to any Argentine violation of British territory. He allegedly replied "sod that, I'll make their eyes water", a remark that became famous.

During the two-hour Battle of Grytviken on 3 April 1982, Lieutenant Mills' detachment of 22 Royal Marines inflicted damage on the Argentine corvette ARA Guerrico, hitting her with an 84mm anti-tank rocket and many rounds of small arms fire, and shot down a Puma helicopter, killing two Argentine Marines and one sailor, while sustaining one wounded on the British side. The losses suffered at Grytviken prevented Argentina from occupying the rest of the island, with 15 Britons remaining outside Argentine control on several locations from Bird Island and Schlieper Bay in the northwest to St. Andrews Bay to the southeast.