Dawes-Huish, Peter

A-LIST 2005

Company: LinuxIT.

Job title: Chief executive.

Place of birth: Wambrook.

Year of birth: 1960.

Marital status: Married.

Career highlights: I specialise in bringing new technologies and services to Europe while setting up operations and infrastructure companies around these. I have further assisted in taking these companies through mergers, acquisitions and IPO. Notable successes include Admiral Software, Cyrano and Numega/Compuware

What do you love most about the IT industry? Its volatility and ability to continually reinvent itself.

Which company do you most admire or respect in the IT business? Red Hat.

Which individual do you most admire or respect in the IT business? Bob Young [of Red Hat].

What is the biggest technology trend you anticipate in the next 12 months? Further adoption of Linux, in particular migration from proprietary Unix.

What is the one thing working in the technology industry has taught you? Success only comes from hard work.

Where do you think the channel will be in five years time? Precisely where it is now.

Which do you think is the most influential vendor in the UK? Hewlett-Packard.

Which do you think is the most influential ISV in the UK? Today, Microsoft.

Which vendor's technology do you think has changed the face of IT? Cisco.

How do you unwind or spend your spare time? Farming. I have 16 acres of land that require constant maintenance, mowing, hedgelaying and so on.

Where is your favourite place to eat? The Ivy.

What is your favourite drink? Beer.

What is your favourite TV programme or film? Saving Private Ryan.

Who is your favourite musician, band, artist or genre? 70s Punk.

What is your favourite book? Anything by Primo Levi.

What career would you have pursued if you hadn't worked in the channel? Boxing.

What has been your greatest business achievement? A successful IPO on the French stock market.

What is your personal ambition? To be as rich as Roman Abramovich.