Born: Johannesburg 1958
Education:
- St Andrews College, Grahamstown – Matriculated 1978
Marital status:
- Married to Fiona since August 1989 and I have two children, a son 17 years and a daughter 15 years.
- Have been living in Port Elizabeth since 1991.
Work history:
- Worked for various shipping companies until 1988.
- January 1988 joined Auto & General Insurance until April 2002.
- Started working for Auto & General in Cape Town, promoted to a manager and transferred to Port Elizabeth in 1991.
- I resigned from Auto & General to go into full time politics.
Previous political positions:
- MPL in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature
- DA Provincial Legislature committees served are: Local Government & Traditional Affairs; Housing and Economic Affairs.
- Elected as a ward councillor for the Democratic Alliance in December 2000 in Port Elizabeth.
- Re-elected in 2006.
- Was elected Chief Whip of the DA Caucus Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality in 2006.
- Serve on the Provincial Executive of the party.
- Provincial chair ADAC (Assoc Democratic Alliance Councillors)
- DA spokesperson HR & Corporate Admin spokesperson DA caucus NMBM.
- Elected as Member of the Provincial Legislature (MPL) Eastern Cape April 2009