Born in Twickenham in 1950. Secondary education at Hampton Grammar School. A period of employmnet before university with the Abbey National Building Society
Finished formal education at Bradford University in 1974 gaining a BSc in Business studies. Followed up with additional qualification in sales and marketing and management accountancy.
Supported my first wife’s career and lived in Austria for 4 years and Moscow for 18 months before starting a business with my second and current wife. For nearly twenty years we imported products from Russia and Poland as well as being UK Agents for three companies in Germany. We also designed and managed our own on web site with retail sales from 1998 to 2015.
We finished our working lives running a retail shop in Harrogate town centre.
Being part of the new town council gives me the chance to give something back to Harrogate.
