Mike has held various active management roles with his family business, Unitron Industries, a Kitchener-based hearing aid manufacturer until selling the company to the Phonak Group in 2001. His family also had a controlling stake in Dspfactory, a developer of digital signal processing technology that was spun out of Unitron in 1998. AMI Semiconductor bought Dspfactory in 2004.

Currently, Mike plays an active role in the seven startup businesses his family's investment fund has an interest in. Four of those startups are here in Waterloo Region. Mike sits on their Boards and meets regularly with their founders. With 30+ years of sound business acumen, he has a wealth of experience and wisdom to share.

Mike is a Wilfrid Laurier University Business graduate. He also devotes a considerable amount of time to non-profit organizations. In addition to being a Director at the Accelerator Centre, he is also President-Elect of the Board for the KW YMCA, Chairman of the Business and Education Partnership of Waterloo Region, and a Director for the Cambridge Community Foundation.