Born in Cape Town, Colin completed his B.Comm degree at UCT and qualified as a Chartered Accountant, working for Ernst & Young in Cape Town and then in the UK. In 2000, after 5 years as a senior finance manager for Canada Life Assurance Company in London, he embarked on an international operatic singing career, becoming only the third South African tenor in history to achieve the "Grand Slam” in opera - to have sung in all of the 5 major opera houses in the world. Now, after 20 years abroad, Colin has returned to South Africa to merge his financial and creative skills at bulthaup.