Job title Ordinary Joe.

Company Westcoast.

Year of birth 1952.

Place of birth Sussex.

Career outline Amazingly, I’m still employed.

What motivates you every morning to get up and work in the channel? My staff: the best in industry.

What has been the most over-hyped technology in the past five years? Anything that does not help or produce efficiency.

What will be the most underrated technology in the next five years? Wireless/broadband.

Which technology would you most like to have invented? Something that makes difficult vendors disappear at the touch of a button.

Do you have any regrets from your time in the industry? Yes, I wake up screaming every two hours.

If you could swap places with anyone in the industry, who would it be? I would not inflict me on anyone.

What is the biggest hurdle you have faced in your career? A 22-stone product manager at a major vendor who thought he was good.

What is the biggest success of your career? It’s yet to come.

What piece of technology could you not live without? Wind up gramophone.

What would be your advice to anyone starting a career in IT? Go visit a head shrink.

What would you like for Christmas if you could have anything? Continuous good health.

What is your favourite karaoke song? What is karaoke?

What would be the title of your autobiography? Done good.

Do you have any phobias? Yes. Vendors going direct.

How many beers before you fall over? I don’t drink beer, but two good bottles of red wine will do the trick.

What is your golf handicap? 20.

What car do you drive? Various.

Number of air miles you have? Not a clue