About Mike
Michael Law is a civic and technology leader with two decades of experience spanning local government, organisational transformation, and
digital innovation. He is currently Deputy Mayor of the Whanganui District Council, where he focuses on long-term economic development, digital enablement, and building systems that work for people—not against them.
Alongside his public role, Michael is Chief Vision Officer of Necta, an AI-driven recruitment platform reshaping how organisations and candidates operate in a new era of work. He is also Chief Vision Officer of Surge, where he leads AI implementation across organisations and is the architect behind Surge Technology—delivering production-ready applications in a month, for a fixed fee. Across his career, Michael has led large-scale transformations in banking, insurance, central government, and enterprise organisations throughout New Zealand and Australia.
More recently, he founded HIVE HQ in Whanganui—an incubator and innovation hub supporting local businesses, startups, and practical AI adoption. He is also the author of Agility Matters, a fiction-based exploration of why large organisations struggle to change—and how they actually can.
When not in council chambers or building software, Michael is usually thinking about the future of work, regional resilience, and how to make complex systems simpler, with a healthy dose of realism. A father of three, he is focused on leaving his small slice of paradise better than when he found it.