Professional and Educational

• Ran various niche financial services businesses as a senior executive or General Manager, 1996-2007 
• Worked as a solicitor in private and corporate practice for 5 years before moving into commercial/management roles 
• Non-executive board director with the private health insurer HCF, 1995-2009
• Deputy Convenor, Australian Classification Review Board, 2000-04
• Won Australian Financial Review management competition & runner-up in Asia Pacific competition, 1999
• Two Bachelor degrees (Arts & Law) and two Masters degrees (Law & MBA)
• Mitsui Educational Foundation Scholarship winner from Sydney University, 1988
• Author of various publications, including papers on law, public policy and local government mediation
• Educated at St Aloysius' and St Ignatius' Colleges

Community Participation

• Lives in Lindfield with wife Jacqueline and their four young children
• Involvement with local church, school, sporting, charity and other community groups
• Northside Local Government Councillor 1991-1995, including delegate to NSROC
• Past honorary service on boards of Mercy Foundation and NSW College of Law
• Vice-President, Sydney University Student Representative Council, 1986-87
• Active member of the Liberal Party since 1994, serving in numerous capacities