Mike is an experienced health and safety professional with more than 30 years' experience in safety enforcement and regulation, manufacturing, mining, transport, tertiary education and central government. Mike has extensive experience in health and safety leadership, health and safety management systems, change management, risk management, incident investigation, auditing and project management. Mike has held a wide range of senior risk and safety practitioner roles and has successfully led organisation-wide health and safety change programmes.

Mike is comfortable operating in both operational and strategic environments. He holds a Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety and a Degree in Agricultural Management, both from Massey University, and has undertaken tertiary studies in risk management and environmental management at Victoria University. Mike is based in Wellington.