Education
Fairfax was educated at both Oxford and Harvard. He is married with three children and serves as a Elder at Bay Area Community Church.
Fairfax was educated at both Oxford and Harvard. He is married with three children and serves as a Elder at Bay Area Community Church.
He was well known in the 1990s as the media heir who unsuccessfully trying to privatise his family"s media company Fairfax Media in 1987. He successfully took over the then company John Fairfax holding but on 10 December 1990 the company collapsed and a receiver was appointed. The controversial method of financing and purchasing holdings of the established company from family members and the consequential problems arising in the media group in later years are still cited today in Australian media history.
In 1991, he migrated to the United States.
Finally settling in Annapolis, Maryland, he founded a successful business consultancy and executive coach business.