He attended Narwee Boys' High School, played competitive chess, and then won a scholarship to study economics at the University of New South Wales.

[7] Since 2018, Farleigh has served as a patron of Their Future Today, a charity supporting orphaned and abandoned children in Sri Lanka.

[10] There, he became friends with David Norwood, a chess grand master, and three years later, he decided to retire, aged 34, and moved to Monte Carlo.

[11] In 1999, Farleigh invested £2M in the renovation of the old French Embassy mansion in London's Portman Square, turning it into the private members club Home House.

[14] Several companies Farleigh invested in include: ClearSpeed, Evolution Group, IP2IPO, Proximagen, Home House and Wolfson Microelectronics.

[15] Farleigh was selected in 2006 and 2007 to appear as an investor on the British version of the business-related TV programme Dragons' Den for the show's third and fourth series.