Anthony has worked in the UK and South Africa as a Business and Financial Advisor to private clients, business owners, public corporations and financial institutions. Since 2001 he has operated his own UK practice, Mentor Financial Services Limited which provides a coaching-style consultancy to CEOs of SMEs in all areas of business improvement, strategic financial planning and successful exit strategy implementation. Mentor also provides high-level training and new product development for financial services groups in the UK. Prior to Mentor he was Managing Director of the Professional Alliance, a division of Inter-Alliance PLC, responsible for developing relationships with the legal and accountancy professions, namely the Law Society and Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Anthony began his career in 1970 in the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as a uniformed policeman then into CID and Special Branch duties. He carried out investigations into homicide, fraud, prosecutions and anti-terrorist operations being honourably discharged five years later to pursue a law degree.

Following graduation, he gained admittance to the Supreme Court of South Africa as an Advocate. He later became Legal Advisor and then Managing Director of Corporate Executive Services Ltd within Old Mutual PLC, the largest South African insurance company which recently acquired the Royal Skandia Group. There he developed a legal and financial planning sales force and was one of the early pioneers of fee-based financial services on the African continent. He is a Past President of the South African Financial Planning Institute.

Anthony has been an invited speaker at many conferences and delivered corporate training to private and public companies in the UK and South Africa. He has authored over a dozen books on financial and tax topics and contributed widely to professional publications. He recently gained the distinction of being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).