Mike Finlayson, Managing Director / Project Director

Mike’s career to date has been dominated with delivering and supporting complex industrial and processing infrastructure.

 After graduating with an honours degree in civil engineering the first 10 years of Mike’s career was mostly involved in delivering a wide range of projects in the oil and gas industry across the globe based out of London, Aberdeen and New Plymouth.  Initially working as a structural engineer designing offshore oil and gas facilities, he has progressed into project and construction management and project governance.

 Upon returning to New Zealand Mike has had a successful career building and operating businesses that deliver large design-build projects to industrial and energy businesses.  He has been actively involved delivering projects across a wide range of industries including food and beverage, dairy, wine, timber, energy, power, alternative energy and renewables.

 Mike has extensive experience and capability in governance, having sat on the New Zealand Leadership team of a multi-national engineering delivery company for over 15 years as well as being on the board, including a period as chair, of a significant national fuel storage and distribution business.

 Having founded Artifex Engineering in 2020, Mike is still very hands on and he works actively as a project director on larger and more complex projects.