While there, he joined the Monash University Blues Football Club in which he became its honorary member later in life.
[4] De Young began his career as a planner for the Australian Paper Manufacturers (AMCOR) but later became an economics and accounting teacher at Mentone Grammar School in 1975.
[5] Despite this change in de Young’s career, Carey Baptist Grammar School appointed him the sixth Principal in 2002 in which he served in that position until March 2010.
[3] Since retiring in 2010, de Young returned to the financial sector in a variety of positions that included the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the investment house, Evans and Partners in 2012.
[5] He later became Headmaster of Trinity Grammar following a scandal at the school that required an interim leadership team between 2018 and 2019.