Gary is a qualified quantity surveyor having completed his BSc as part of the graduate training programme at Sir Robert McAlpine.

In 1986 he joined his family’s business Apollo London Ltd, steering its rise over the next 25 years into one of the UK’s largest social housing contractors. As CEO, Gary led the successive sales of the Apollo Group to Lloyds Development Capital and Halifax Bank of Scotland with a combined enterprise value of £560 million. In 2012, the Apollo Group merged with the Keepmoat Group to form one of the leading support services companies in the UK, with an annual turnover in excess of £1 billion. Gary is also a member of the Investment Advisory Board at Islandbridge Capital.