Marc Sumner

CEO, Robertson Sumner

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Marc Sumner

What has been your business highlight of 2022?

Running our first ever successful Channel Chat Live event in the summer with a great panel and many of the CRN A-List in the audience too.

If you were ruler of your own country, what law would you introduce first?

I'd raise the minimum drinking age to 21.

Which channel or tech leader (outside of your own company) has impressed you most in 2022?

Elon Musk.

If you had a warning label, what would it say?

"Too hot to handle."

What was your first job?

Trainee accountant. Don't ask - I know.

What was the last book you read?

As A Man Thinketh, by James Allen.

What's the most important lesson you've learned from another business leader or mentor?

Surround yourself with good people and don't take things too personally!

Who would play you in a movie of your life?

Dwayne ‘The Rock' Johnson.

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