Mike Prior, P.Eng., is the Senior Strategic Advisor for Michels Canada, one of the nation’s top utility infrastructure contractors, specializing in pipelines, horizontal directional drilling, Direct Pipe and tunneling. He was Senior Vice President at Michels Canada until 2013 and lead operations as Vice President for Marine Pipeline Construction previous to that. Prior has close to 50 years’ experience in the pipeline industry in engineering and Management roles and has worked on most major pipeline systems in Canada. Prior is a registered professional engineer in several Canadian provinces and in the United Kingdom.