Before that, he worked in London as a marketing/management consultant. He moved out of London to help his parents run their school, Sherborne House Prep School in Chandlers Ford as Bursar. After they sold the school, he says he didn’t fancy moving back to London so started a business importing and manufacturing wargames figures (basically toy soldiers for adults). Before university, he took a gap year serving with the 17/21st Lancers on a Short Service Limited Commission based at Tidworth. It was during that time he decided that the Wiltshire/Hampshire border, particularly around Salisbury was where he wanted to settle.