1990 to 2012
Manager of Doneiga – A Commercial Property Trust (family)

1. Hospitality and mixed-use retail precincts.
2. Industrial mixed-use villages.

This combination proved to be a very successful mix in terms of property demand cycles. Project operating band – $3ml to $15ml range.

September 2012 – Curve Ball: Broken Neck
An instant life-changing moment. Crashing in a cycling race, I became paralyzed from head to thigh down my right side for 9 months.

2013 – Adapt
Still paralyzed, I began to retrain into new skill sets. With the use of one arm, I began to learn technology and coding.
I developed and founded Cycleevents.com and then Ride Gold Coast

2014 – Technology, Networks, and Villages.
Many years of cycling had inadvertently taught me, that the successful cycling networks, were in fact Villages of cyclists in-kind working together. This highlighted a similar theme that ran through all my successes within building commercial property environments. Understanding the influential differences between a Network and a Village, became and important driver. Villages are a living thriving ecosystem that is typically in sync with your efforts, whilst Networks are more inert with no such ecosystem at their centre.

2016 December: Terminal Cancer
Diagnosed with Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) – Life expectancy of less than 6 months.
CCA av survival 6.7 months. My younger brother Graeme had previously succumbed to this in 2014.
CCA is the most hostile and aggressive of all cancers, alongside pancreatic. Crude 5-year survival of less than 8% –  1% if metastatic as I was.

2017 Surgeries, Aneurysms, Trials then Miracles
After 25 hrs of high stakes surgeries, ICU’s and 2 international trials, I am miraculously still here. I am one of three people globally to officially survive this cancer from a metastatic setting. CCA is the most hostile of all cancers alongside pancreatic. It begins in the bile ducts within the liver and directly impacts the liver, gallbladder, stomach, pancreas, duodenum, and major arteries – these are also the organs they removed from my body over 25 hrs. View my story 

2018: The terrain – Dark Holes, Treacherous Swamps, and then Everest.
Having successfully survived the unsurvivable swamps of Cholangio, I began a new journey and challenge to digest and apply all that had happened on me. Getting to this point was been beyond what I thought I was capable of, yet there was more. Mentally and physically I was knackered, but I knew I had to adapt and grow out of this horrendous chain of broken necks, terminal cancer, and near-fatal aneurysms. You carry this stuff with you for life, but it all comes down to how you choose to carry it.  The romantic ideal of mental toughness and just dust yourself get on with it is for those that have never been there – you need a plan and that begins with creating a new reality and then get busy building it, otherwise, the opportunity of life will be lost.

2019 to present

• I now specialize in understanding my success, which means immunology and immunotherapy, in particular, the “Checkpoint Inhibitor Pathways”
• I have become an integral cog in the evolutionary Cancer Cure Equation.
• I mentor terminal cancer patients around the world. The people I would never have met if not for cancer, has astounded me – I am so very grateful.
• I write and contribute my knowledge, experiences, and wisdom to the Globally Connected Patient, a collective of patients, and Caregivers.
• I distill, simplify and deliver the collectives Knowledge to the Newly Diagnosed patient and caregiver.
• Development of a revolutionary Biotech patient health platform for mutational matchmaking, and co-partnered with US/global tech team. This will save many many lives in real-time.
• I also found a non-cancer vehicle to get me back on the entrepreneurial paddock of life once again. Main Beach needed help, so I developed “Villager to Village” – a postmodern villager revival, a grassroots model that rebuilt the ecosystem within the inert community. It’s very rewarding.