Why did you get into printing?

I saw that the packaging sales reps were driving Ford Orions and I only had a Mini at the time – and in the early 1990s printers were earning more money than I was!

What would be your dream job?

A printer in the 1990s

What is your dream bit of kit?

Any large-format digital press

What would you most like to print?

I’ve always had a soft spot for the silver embossed Chivas Regal box, as was

What is your favourite film?

The Wolf of Wall Street due to the sales hustle

What is your favourite TV programme?

Mock the Week

Sweet or savoury?

Savoury

Who or what do you hate the most?

HS2 and the associated quango brigade springs to mind, and Amazon with their need to over pack everything

What is your favourite album?

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

What book are you reading at the moment?

Guy Martin’s Dead Men Don’t Tell Tales

Cat or dog?

Dog

What’s your greatest luxury in life?

A McLaren 720

What is the strangest job you’ve ever done?

In my youth I was an industrial dishwasher operator at a motorway service station

Who would you like to be stuck on a desert island with? 

Any Olympic rower and a boat builder

Who or what makes you laugh?

Micky Flanagan and Kevin Bridges

Which superpower would you like?

Flight

Where would you like to be right now?

At the below dinner party

Who would be your favourite party guests?

Billy Connolly, Barack Obama, Andy Murray, Albert Einstein, Adele, my grandparents, Roger Waters, Margaret Thatcher and Peter Ustinov

What was your childhood obsession?

Any one of Charlie’s Angels

What is the worst kind of print?

Flexo (sorry I’m a litho man)

What was the best business deal that you’ve pulled off?

The MBO at Quantum P&P

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

Behave

How would you like to be remembered?

Was always fair and enjoyed life

Life is…?

A rollercoaster