Born here. Built here.
Show me the working.

I was born and brought up on the Island, growing up in Port Erin and educated at Rushen Primary and Castle Rushen High School. My mum is a retired school teacher, brought up across the road from Knockaloe Beg farm.

Today, I live on the Ballagarey estate in Glen Vine, with my son, our cats and their hamster. I'm a member of the Manx Tri Club — by my own admission a fairly poor distance runner, but I've got round ten or so marathons, and completed our own Parish Walk on my first attempt in 2024 (what an event that is)! I've also put in my share of community volunteering over the years, in different forms — but I don't believe in public gratification, so it's got to be saying something for me to step forward like this.

I've spent much of my career solving complicated problems for other people. What matters to me now is simpler: making sure the Island my children grow up on is somewhere young people can actually afford — and have the opportunity — to stay, build a career, raise a family, and feel they have a future here, not just somewhere they're from.

I trained as an aeronautical engineer at Glasgow, then Imperial College London, and later an Executive MBA with Distinction from Warwick, covering finance, economics and strategy, with a dissertation on the Isle of Man’s own economy. I was fortunate to receive that education, supported one way or another by the taxpayer — and that's a big part of why I want to give something back now. I spent years in technology organisations, large and small, running or contributing to very large programmes of work and organisational change, and subsequently co-founded a Manx technology business, built it to around 22 people, and sold my share to my business partner at the end of last year, after years consulting to government organisations and heavily regulated industries. I currently run a boutique consultancy, I serve on the Department for Enterprise’s AI Advisory Group, and I’m writing research on the intricacies of small nations and what they can tell the rest of the world — including revisiting the predictive economic models I built 15 years ago. More background on LinkedIn.

I’ve also built a free, public Data and Analytics Observatory — census data, the Government’s own accounts, its published reviews, turned into something you can actually use. I built it to find better ways of explaining complicated things and getting people to engage with them, not to start a business. A small island with our resources should be the best-run place in the British Isles, and you can’t fix what you won’t look at.

One thing worth being upfront about: the Observatory sits on my own consultancy’s domain because that’s simply where I host my own projects — it’s free to use, it isn’t commissioned work, and nobody pays for it to exist. None of my consultancy work is for Isle of Man Government, so there’s no live conflict to manage today — but if that changes, or if I’m elected, I’ll publish exactly what I’d step back from or recuse myself from, rather than leave you to take my word for it.

Why “Humility. Service. Evidence.”?

• Humility — an MHK’s role is to listen, understand and build consensus, not dictate.
• Service — the job is surgeries, doorsteps and casework, not titles.
• Evidence — popular opinions are cheap, and Middle deserves MHKs who do their homework.

Competence, transparency and accountability — demonstrated

Every candidate will tell you they’re capable, and hand you a list of aspirations. I’d rather show you the record: I’ve been both commercially and technically experienced. Commercially: I co-founded a Manx technology business, grew it to around 22 people, sold my share at the end of last year, and now run a consultancy spanning everything from data centres to data science. Technically: I trained as an engineer, I sit on the Department for Enterprise’s AI Advisory Group, and I built the Observatory’s tools myself — policy workings and models included, published before the campaign and open to anyone. A Distinction-level MBA dissertation on this Island’s own economy made 7 specific predictions — you can check for yourself how each one has played out. Don’t take the CV’s word for it — open the tools, and judge for yourself.

Why should you trust me?

Every claim links to a source. And when I get something wrong, I’ll say so in writing — you can check the corrections log yourself. That’s the standard I’ll take to the Keys, and you should hold every candidate to it.