What do you do at TAG?
I’m the operational Partner of our Investment Advisory and Wealth division. I work with the team to ensure we are delivering quality advice to clients in a timely manner. We are also self licensed which means we are responsible for the compliance requirements that comes with running a leading financial planning business.
How do you prefer to start your day? Tea or Coffee?
Coffee – we are lucky enough to have a great coffee machine in the TAG kitchen.
What was your first job?
I did a paper round delivering newspapers 6 days per week – I was 12 and recall my pay one week increasing from $11.80 per week to $13. The catch with the paper round was I also got to sell footy Records at VFL Park.
That could be $80 for a couple of hours on a good day!
What are you reading right now?
Cadel Evans (Tour de France winner) autobiography.
Who would be your 3 ideal dinner guests, dead or alive?
Share Warne, Winston Churchill and Greg Norman.
What’s your favorite movie?
Saving Private Ryan
Do you have any pets?
A dog called “Griffin” – an unruly Cavoodle
Do you have any special talents?
I can yell at both of my children at the same time.
Who’s someone you really admire and why?
Anyone who works in disability or Aged Care – where would we be without them.
Got any favorite quotes?
“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful”
– Warren Buffet on mindset when investing
Also, “It costs you nothing to give away a smile”.
If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Chicken Parmigana (with chips and salad of course).
What are three items you’d take with you to a deserted island?
My wife
A slab of beer (and ice to keep chilled – oh, and a stubby holder)
Snorkeling gear