He came to the West-country in 1975 to join KPMG at their Plymouth office. Promoted four times in three years he then left to join a sole practitioner in Tavistock in 1978. That practice now has five partners. Outside of work he is vice-chairman of the governors at Milton Abbot School, enjoys field archery, is attempting to re-commence sailing and determined to get the bottom of a canoe wet – the last two times finding him, briefly, the wrong way up!