Blake has worked predominantly in the travel industry over the last 20 in various leadership roles across Asia Pacific. He is based on the Gold Coast with his wife Ellie and two children and currently leads the commercial organisation for a national marketing solutions company.

Blake is a good friend of Perry’s from school and was one of the founding organisers of the first Perry Cross Golf day in 1995. In 2018 Blake organised the first fundraising lunch for the PCSRF in Melbourne.