Gary Frisch, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGary Frisch
British businessman
Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1969
Date of Death: 10-Feb-2007
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Gary Frisch
- Gary Frisch (22 January 1969 – 10 February 2007) was co-founder of the Gaydar website.
- He was one of the UK's leading gay businessmen. Frisch was born in South Africa.
- His father, Eric, worked in engineering, and his mother, Rona, was an accountant.
- He was educated at Boksburg High School and studied computer science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg while working for De Beers' industrial diamond division.
- After graduation, he set up a computer software company, Frisoft Software, which he sold to Q Data (now named Business Connection) in 1994.
- He was a technical director with Q Data until he left South Africa in 1997. He moved to the UK in 1997 with his partner, Henry Badenhorst, to set up QSoft Consulting, an information technology consultancy firm.
- After a friend complained that he was too busy to look for a new boyfriend, they launched the Gaydar internet dating website in November 1999 from their home in Twickenham.
- The website rapidly became very popular and by 2007, Gaydar had nearly 4 million users in 23 countries.
- The Gaydar brand expanded into other areas: Frisch was chairman of GaydarRadio, a digital radio station founded in 2002. Badenhorst and Frisch's personal partnership broke up in 2006, although they remained business partners. Frisch was found dead below the window of his eighth-floor flat in Wandsworth, South London.
- A verdict of misadventure was recorded by Paul Knapman, the coroner at the inquest.
- A pathologist, Peter Wilkins, said raised levels of ketamine were found in Frisch's blood and liver.
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