Michelle Keith

Chief Operating Officer Moorepay

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Michelle Keith is Chief Operating Officer of Moorepay, the UK payroll and HR software and services provider that traces its history to 1966 and is today a subsidiary of the Zellis group. She is one of the senior team that Moorepay names alongside its chief executive and chief financial officer. Her background is on the service side of the business rather than in technology or finance: she began as an employment law consultant, built HR advisory services across several European countries, and held leadership roles in Zellis’s managed services organisation, most recently as Customer Operations Director at Zellis, before moving to Moorepay.

Career Highlights

• Chief Operating Officer of Moorepay, a payroll and HR provider with more than 500 staff, headquartered in Swinton, Greater Manchester.
• Began as an employment law consultant, setting up HR advisory services for a number of countries across Europe; Moorepay describes that service as the forerunner of its own HR Services.
• Held a number of HR consulting roles before moving into leadership roles in Zellis’s managed services organisation.
• Served as Customer Operations Director at Zellis before joining Moorepay.

Professional Journey

Keith’s career started in employment law. According to Moorepay, she joined initially as an employment law consultant and set up HR advisory services for a number of countries across Europe, a service the company describes as the forerunner of its own HR Services offering. Moorepay’s account does not name the employer at that stage or give dates.

She then held a number of roles in HR consulting before moving into leadership positions in the managed services organisation of Zellis, the payroll and HR group that owns Moorepay. Zellis took that name in 2020, when NGA UK & Ireland was renamed. Her last role there before joining Moorepay was Customer Operations Director.

At Moorepay she is Chief Operating Officer. The company was formed as Douglas Moore Ltd in Surbiton, south-west London, in November 1966, and now operates from Lowry Mill in Swinton, Manchester, with more than 500 people providing payroll, HR software and HR services to UK employers. Its ownership changed again in 2024, when Apax Partners acquired Zellis Group from Bain Capital. When she became COO has not been published.

Education

No education record was found in the sources consulted.