Matt Franklin

What has been your personal highlight of 2020?

Getting married to Sarah during lockdown despite a couple of postponements.

Which celebrities would you invite to a Zoom party?

James Corden, Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller.

What has been your guiltiest lockdown pleasure?

Lots of homemade cakes.

Which tech figurehead has inspired you most this year, and why?

Elon Musk - sticking to his principles and achieving amazing results despite some serious setbacks.

What piece of technology, or app, have you not been able to do without during the pandemic?

Google Hangouts for remote learning for the four girls.

If you could be anyone else for a week, who would you be and what would you do?

I'd be my dog Hugo and enjoy having no responsibilities and catch up on some much-needed sleep.

Do you miss face-to-face events?

Very much so…but not all of them!

How will COVID leave its mark on the way the channel operates long term?

The channel will require more lateral thinking and deeper client engagements to succeed over the long term with everything provided as a service.