Michael Kaltz is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor who was a Partner in Ernst & Young LLP for 15 years, latterly specialising in Human Resources consulting and Employment Law. He was awarded a Distinction in his Masters Degree in Employment Law by the University of Leicester in 2014.

Since leaving the Big 4 environment at the end of 2004, Michael has enjoyed a varied career. Through Mentaction, he has provided employment-related advice to businesses ranging from SME's to FTSE 100 companies. Additionally, in 2010 and 2011, Michael ran a start-up interim management recruitment business at the request of a group of investors. Since 2011, he has been a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Appointments & Remuneration Committee of an SME in the healthcare sector. From 2012 to 2016, Michael was  a Public Appointments Assessor - a role in which he worked with Government Ministers and senior civil servants to ensure that Ministerial appointments to Public Bodies were made on the basis of merit after fair and open competition. From 2015 to 2019, Michael was a member of the Board of the Office for Legal Complaints and Chair of its Audit & Risk Committee. Since 2017, he has been a panel member for the Tax Disciplinary Board.

Michael has sat on the Employment Tribunal since 2010 as a lay member and for several years he was an advocate in the Employment Tribunal for claimants who could not otherwise afford representation (under the umbrella of the Free Representation Unit).

Michael is also a Financially Qualified Member of the Social Entitlement Tribunal and a member of the Premier League Judicial Panel.

Michael's financial background and broad experience enable him to better understand clients' businesses and hence give employment advice tailored to their needs.