Ross Mansoori-Dara was educated at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire and Downing College, Cambridge where he received a Masters in Law. Ross went on to qualify as a Barrister in the UK and also an Attorney in New York, USA.
From 1987 to 1994, Ross practiced Corporate Finance Law for both Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Rogers & Wells, New York, where he worked on deals in excess of $30 billion. In 1994, he was a founder of a residential property business, which became one of the premier niche residential development companies in the UK, with over $1 billion worth of development under construction or in the pipeline in the UK.