His grandmother was Aloisia Brial, Lavelua (queen) of Uvéa from 1954 to 1958, and his father is politician Cyprien Brial, who served in the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna from 1967 to 1987.
He worked as a company director,[1] and as parliamentary assistant to Senator Sosefo Makapé Papilio from 1987 to 1990.
[7] He was appointed to the board of directors of the Wallis-and-Futuna health agency in February 2002, and again in March 2006 and May 2008.
[8] He was appointed as Wallis and Futuna's representative to the Supervisory Board of the Institut d'émission d'outre-mer in May 2005 and October 2009.
[10] In June 2011, he was given a 4-month suspended prison sentence for concealment of misuse of corporate assets.