Ross was appointed to the board of Wilson Bayly Holmes-Ovcon Limited in 2014. After graduating from Strathclyde University in the United Kingdom in 1985, he spent a decade on the South African coal mines. He has since worked as a financial analyst at some of the top broking firms, a senior consultant at a mining consultancy and a venture capital fund manager investing in early-stage African mining projects. Ross now owns a consultancy firm specialising in mining risk assessments for bank's credit committees as well as analysis of mining projects throughout the African continent.