Brian was born in Cape Town and has academic qualifications from a number of universities in South Africa.

He was a professional soldier and a military commander until he joined the corporate world in 1992. After three years in a senior executive position in a national JSE-listed group, he left to start his own business and has been an entrepreneur since then.

He is known as The Ethics Architect™ and is passionate about assisting clients to build ethical businesses and defeat the concerted attack of workplace crime. He achieves this through his innovative reporting service called Be Heard® and through his unique ethics surveys, consulting and training.

He is a Certified Ethics Officer and one of the first group of ethics practitioners to qualify for the professional designation EP(SA).

He speaks regularly at conferences, workshops and webinars and lectures at academic institutions and is a Professional Member of the Professional Speakers’ Association of Southern Africa.

Because new businesses are like sea turtles – only about 5% of them survive – he is passionate to see more companies succeed and grow to maturity and become sustainable and profitable. His very popular book – Of Course You Can!® - aims to share the lessons that he has learnt on his own – sometimes bumpy – journey! He also conducts a range of workshops to assist entrepreneurs.

Brian is married to Jacqui, has two adult daughters and three grandchildren and calls Durban home.