A retired investment banker with Morgan Stanley and former non-executive director of BAe Systems and London Regional Transport. Lives in Fryerning and owns Lyndsay's Farm Livery, the centre of the family's equine interests in racing and breeding. Treasurer of Essex County Cricket Club, Pastmaster of the Worshipful Company of Coopers, Trustee of Fryerning Foundation and Governor of Brentwood School. Awarded the OBE in 2015 for services to charitable fund raising in the community in Essex.