Following the building and running of a trout farm in Wiltshire, Jem completed a 16-year commission in the RAF in the air traffic control specialization. He then worked for NATS, the UK’s primary air navigation service provider, for the next 22 years in a variety of operational and leadership roles at Heathrow, London City, Gatwick, Birmingham, Swanwick Centre and NATS HQ at Whiteley. He lives in Winchester and has a wife, 4 children and a spaniel. He enjoys cycling, walking, playing guitar, learning to play bridge and is a passionate angler. Jem has fished from a young age and has caught fish of various species around the world.

As a competition trout angler, Jem was Inter-Services Champion in the late 90’s but his most recent passion is bonefishing in the Caribbean. He has a rod at Timsbury on the Test, is a member of the Barton Stacey Fly Fishing Club and fishes on the Itchen and Meon as a member of the Portsmouth Service Fly Fishing Association.