What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Zero audit queries and a quiet celebratory toast at the end of the day.
What is your greatest fear?
A reply-all email storm.
What is your life philosophy or mantra that you live by?
Build fast. Fix faster. Celebrate occasionally with whiskey.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Impatience … I like my results the way I like my deliveries: yesterday.
On what occasion do you lie?
I tell my team the sky’s the limit, then I quietly check the budget.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Being busy.
What do you most dislike about your appearance?
The CEO uniform: navy, white, repeat.
Which talent would you most like to have?
The superpower to predict which ideas will actually work, saving me from 99% of my own meetings.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
I’d come back as a private jet – fast, in demand, and everyone wants a ride.
What is your favourite occupation?
Problem-solver-in-chief.
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Trust me.