Professional and Educational

• Considerable experience running various niche financial services businesses as a senior executive or General Manager in the insurance industry
• Non-executive board director with the private health insurer HCF since 1995
• Deputy Convenor/Acting Convenor, Australian Classification Review Board, 2000-04
• Won Australian Financial Review management competition & runner-up in Asia Pacific competition, 1999
• Worked as a solicitor in private and corporate practice for 5 years before moving into commercial/management roles
• 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 on the North Shore at St Aloysius and St Ignatius Colleges

Community Involvement

• Lives in Roseville with wife Jacqueline and their four young children
• Involved 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