David grew up on the family farm near Barham before being educated in Bendigo and then starting his accounting career in Melbourne working for the Taxation Office. After 3 years in Melbourne, David moved back to the country and began his public accounting career in Swan Hill, where he worked for the next 10 years, before moving to Queensland to take up a position as a partner in one of the largest accounting firms in Cairns.

After 8 years with that firm, David left to experiment in a completely different field of accounting, being the Group Accountant for one of Queensland’s largest private companies which owned and operated, among other things, over 100 hotels and bottle shops, 13 Childcare Centres and was heavily involved in the construction of multi storey apartment complexes in the Cairns, Townsville and Gold Coast region.

David moved back to this area in 2009 and he and his family now reside in Tocumwal, where he divides his working week between our Cobram and Finley offices.