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