Gareth was born in the UK then educated in UK, USA and Australia. He got his first job in a retail store (while still at school) in the same year that Ziggy Stardust and Gary Glitter topped the charts. He has spent the last 20 years in a variety of senior sales, marketing and general management roles including 2 years as CEO of a an Australian sporting goods retailer and 7 years in the DSE division of Woolworth’s responsible for group wide merchandise management, marketing and store planning. Gareth has also spent a number of years consulting to retailers and teaching retail at Sydney, Macquarie and Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities. He has won citations for teaching excellence at Sydney University.