After serving as an officer in the Royal Marines for seven years Mike joined the NHS and became a Director and then CEO of hospitals in Devon, Somerset and Oxford and then a Non-executive director in Plymouth. After the NHS he became a Senior Research Fellow at Exeter University where he focused on patient safety and lectured on leadership. Mike was ordained as a Priest in the Anglican Church in 1993 and has exercised a self-supporting ministry in the Dioceses of Exeter and Oxford. He was most recently the Canon Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral until 2021 and is currently the Vice Chair of the Exeter Diocesan Board of Finance. He holds a number of charity trustee positions and has been a school governor in Oxfordshire and in Devon.