His early life started in Wales. He was born in the working class family in Wales in 1949. In 1959, the family moved to the industrial city of Coventry. There he pursued his education at the King Henry VIII grammar school. He achieved the first success in business while in the school. This was in photography and this offered him with the financial ability to invest in the passion of driving the interesting cars. After he left school, he went on to work as a system analyst for Jaguar cars and there he showed a keen eye for the capability of the evolving information technology to create the innovative solutions for the productions problems of the larger scales. In 1974, he went on to form Nullifire, which is his second company that he formed and this business was a novel idea to offer structural fire protection to the steel work.