spotlightapril15 (Magazine article)

Q Most valuable lesson learnt?

A You never know everything so don’t be
complacent, always look to learn.
Q One company to watch (other than
your own)?

A Badgeville – they take product
marketing and personal interaction
in an interesting direction. There is a lot
of potential in their existing capabilities,
I’m intrigued to see what they do next.
Q Going out or staying in?

A With all the travel I do, I’m happy to stay
in or socialise with friends.
Q Staycation or exotic location?

A Exotic, sipping a few cocktails on the
beach as the sun goes down on a
sunny day filled with scuba diving and
laughs.
Q If you weren’t an IT exec, what would
you like to be?

A Game Ranger/ conservationist
Q In charge for the day, what world
problem would you address?

A Illegal trade in animal parts. Completely
unnecessary to wipe out thousands
of vulnerable animals on the scale that
is happening today.
Q Shirt and tie or dress down?

A Dress down whenever possible, it’s
just not acceptable enough yet in a
business community.
Q Your three desert island music choices?

A Rescue Me – Fontella Bass
By Myself – Linkin Park
Things can only get better – D:REAM
Q Guess who’s coming to dinner – your
five guests, (real or fictional characters)?

A Will Ferrell, Stephen Fry, Morgan
Freeman, Michael Palin, Ellen DeGeneres
Q Your hero or heroine from history?

A Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk
who prevented a civil war which would
have impacted my life and destroyed
a country.
Q Your hero or heroine alive and well?

A Daley Thompson, he motivated me to
a lot of success on the athletics track.
Q What’s the point of IT?

A To improve our lives and make us more
effective in anything we do. And to
tease us out of any spare cash we have!
Q When it comes to energy resources (for
data centres/IT) is the glass half-empty
or half-full?

A Wrong size glass. More needs to
be done in developing alternative
energy sources and more competition
in the market.
Q Pet hates?

A Dawdling tourists on Tower Bridge
when I have a train to catch.
Q Where does the time machine take you
and why?

A 100 years into future. The speed
of technological advances over the
past 25 years has been amazing, what
is yet possible?
Q Bring Your Own Device or Bring Your
Own Disaster (waiting to happen at
some point in the future)?

A BYOD – technology should make our
lives easier