[2] He worked as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank for two years after graduating from Macquarie University before choosing to change career paths.
[1] After travelling overseas and teaching himself video editing skills, Tilley decided that journalism was what he ultimately wanted to break into.
[1][3] In 2014, Tilley hosted the first of a number of live studio-based debate and discussion forums broadcast on TV station ABC2.
He would begin a new role as a contributor and part time host for Network 10's The Project, a program he had previously appeared on as a guest presenter throughout 2019.
[7] Tilley’s father was the Pastor of the Mudgee congregation of Revival Centres International, a fundamentalist Pentecostal church established in Melbourne in the 1950s.