Roger William Tobias Chance has worked in the fields of commercial management, production planning, market research and quality control. Since moving to South Africa from England, Mr Chance has developed expertise in the ICT and communications industries including journalism, book and online publishing, computer-based training and education, corporate video and multimedia production, ecommerce systems development, PR and events management. In 1994 he was named Mr Multimedia by a leading computer magazine and became a sought-after speaker as well as TV and radio guest on technology talk shows.

In July 1998 he and a partner founded Mondo Interactive Media to focus on the growing field of eCommerce. In April 2005 Mr Chance was appointed Business Development Director at Adele Lucas Promotions (ALP), a leading events management and communications company, assuming the role of Managing Director in 2010.

Mr Chance was elected a Member of Parliament after the May 2014 elections, representing the Democratic Alliance as Shadow Minister of Small Business Development, serving in those roles until 2019. In 2024 he was re-elected to Parliament and appointed the DA Spokesperson on Trade, Industry and Competition.