At first blush, Jeremy Godfrey appears an unlikely whistle-blower.
Sober-suited and bespectacled, the IT professional has spent his working life flitting between the private sector and government service in Hong Kong and Britain. In fact - uncharitably, perhaps - he might have been considered a faceless bureaucrat.
But the man with the calm and measured exterior at last week's Legislative Council hearing, the man who rose to the government's top information technology job - and who celebrated his 49th birthday yesterday - is a chip off a radical block.
Turn the clock back more than a decade and you'll find another Godfrey rattling cages.
Godfrey's father was the late Mr Justice Gerald Godfrey, a former vice-president of Hong Kong's Court of Appeal.
Godfrey senior was appointed to the High Court in 1986 after establishing 'a large and successful commercial practice in the Far East', according to his obituary in the London Sunday Times. In Hong Kong, 'he quickly established himself as a one-man Chancery Division and Companies Court, and handled all the conveyancing, companies and insolvency work', according to the obituary.