Born and raised in Broken Hill, NSW, Dale's family moved to Adelaide where he finished his schooling and commenced a career in the finance industry.  

Across more than 25 years in the industry, Dale had extensive experience in Institutional, Corporate and Private Banking, together with Structured and International Trade Finance.  Dale led a business for HSBC Bank Australia before moving to Commonwealth Bank where he was instrumental in the re-establishment of Agribusiness Banking across Australia.  He then founded CBA's new Corporate Agri platform, Specialised Agri Solutions, before moving to establish Agrify in early 2010.  

Following this, Dale was sought out to lead the transformation of the Elders Financial Services business, together with the relationship & performance of its partner, Rural Bank, whilst remaining in a strategic, non executive role with Agrify.  

Returning to Agrify full time upon completing the turnaround at Elders, Agrify has gone on to be involved in several of the most signifcant transactions across Australian agriculture in recent years.  This included working with Hong Kong based Genius Link in their ultimately unsuccessful bid for S Kidman & Co., the subsequent formation and bid for the same business by the Australian families "BBHO", and the then record breaking SAWA acquisition in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, amongst others.

More recently Dale was asked by shareholders to step onto the Board of the ASX listed Kalium Lakes Limited (ASX:KLL) when the company suffered a near fatal funding failure during early 2020 and was suspended from the exchange.  Dale stepped down from the Board just over a year later when confronted by a potential conflict as one of his clients engaged Agrify to review the Australian Potash industry with a view to an investment.  By then Kalium Lakes Limited had successfully returned to the ASX and was well on its way to completing construction of the Beyondie Sulphate of Potash Project.