We hosted a conversation with Mike Tuke FREng, Founder & Chairman of MatOrtho, on fifty years of engineering, entrepreneurship, and resilience in orthopaedics.
Mike co-founded Finsbury Orthopaedics in 1978, helped pioneer medially stable knees and hip resurfacing technologies, sold Finsbury to Johnson & Johnson, and later founded MatOrtho to continue developing advanced implant solutions.
The conversation covers innovation, the metal-on-metal story, large corporations, private equity, founder resilience, and the science behind ReCerf®, the world’s first all-ceramic hip resurfacing.
This is not only a story about implants.
It is a story about engineering conviction, risk, survival, and what it really takes to build something meaningful in orthopaedics.