After growing in Sydney, Kiama and Canberra and studied Political Science, Philosophy and Comparative Religion at the Australian National University.

I then embarked on what was supposed to be a brief "life education" spell in restaurants that turned out to be a very successful 13 year career managing award winning fine dining rooms in Australia, Canada, London UK and Scotland.

I then moved onto event management, organising conferences for organisations like the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, which led naturally enough to contracting to govenrment clients on a range of projects such as program and project management.

Parallel to this work I established Schmooze and the Young Professional Alliance (since wrapped up after three years) which are an extension of my philosophy of bringing people together, and fostering the conditions for collaboration and mutual benefit.

You can read an interview conducted by a University of Canberra student in 2007 here (PDF) which explores my philosophy of life and business.

I'm very happily married to my wife Edwina and our scruffy mate, Harry the dog makes up the family.

My pleasures include good wine, the arts, reading about military history, travel and good martini's.