Career
However a footballing career never came into fruition. In the course of the last 30 years, he started and sold a number of companies in the food & drink industry, most recently creating the Enterprise Food Group Limited in 1995 from the basement of his house. He grew the company from a zero start to a position where it was employing over 500 people within the bakery sector, supplying supermarkets with cakes and related products and, in 2005, he sold the manufacturing arm of the company.
He is currently the chairman of his boyhood team As director, he helped the club see off a debt of around £3 million and, along with a managerial team of Alan Archibald and Scott Paterson, led Thistle into the 2013-2014 Scottish Premiership.
He also introduced the club"s popular under-16s go free to Firhill scheme along with the then manager Ian McCall.
