I was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household – Dad being a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with mum, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer.

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I obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties.

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A little like my sporting father, I followed a succession of amateur writing paths alongside my career in technology, including working as a freelance journalist for a news agency and as a book reviewer for a few magazines, my one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday people.

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I also spent 10 years treading the boards, appearing all over the south of the UK in pantos and plays, in village halls and occasionally on the stage of a professional theatre or two.

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Following the sporting theme, and a while after I hung up my own hockey and cricket boots, I worked on live TV broadcasts for the BBC, ITV, TVNZ, EuroSport and others as a rugby "Stato", covering Heineken Cups, Six Nations, IRB World Sevens and IRB World Cups in the late '90's and early '00's.

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I try to combine my love of storytelling with a passion for information technology, working as a senior leader and investor in technology based businesses here in the UK.