Michael commenced his career with a Law degree from UCD.
He went on to hold senior marketing positions with Beecham of Ireland (later to become SmithKlineBeecham), Ranks Ireland (now RHM Premier Foods) and Aer Lingus.
He also workeded as Senior Account Executive with the ad agency Wilson Hartnell, now a part of the Ogilvy and Mather Group.
He then set up his own Ad Agency - Mackey and Partners, merging his Agency into Aubrey Fogarty Associates in the mid 80's, which itself – then AFA O’Meara, subsequently merged with McConnells, which at this time was Ireland’s largest Ad Agency.
Over the period of his career, Michael has worked closely with a wide variety of clients in the retail, financial services and educational sectors.
These included a number of bluechip, multinational and start up clients.
Michael left McConnells in 2010, set up MackeyConsult and continued as Consultant Account Director with the newly merged Target McConnells - a member of the global WPP Group. At the commencement of 2013, MackeyConsult switched its association to Shanley Media Solutions, one of the country’s leading independent Media Agencies.