Gary played an instrumental role in the creation of Thebe Investment Corporation. He also served as Joint Chief Executive Officer of Msele Corporate and Merchant Bank, South Africa’s first black-controlled merchant bank. Gary was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer of Unihold Limited in 1996, where he led its transformation from an engineering conglomerate to an international IT and telecommunications group. He remains Executive Chairman.

Gary was a Director of Cell C and a member of their Remuneration and Audit committees. He has also held the position of director of Blue Label Telecoms and chair of the Investment committee and Remuneration committee and a member of the Audit committee.

Gary holds a Bachelor of Business Science (Hons) degree from the University of Cape Town. He became an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) in 1983 and a Fellow Chartered Management Accountant (UK) in 1996.