What car do you drive?

Whichever one is left once my wife and family have left in the morning.

What’s your favourite restaurant?

The Ubiquitous Chip in Glasgow.

What’s your favourite place to go on holiday?

Holidays are few and far between, but I enjoy the occasional long weekend in major European cities.

Have you ever broken the law?

Two speeding fines in 37 years of driving.

What or who makes you laugh?

I enjoy slapstick-style comedy such as Norman Wisdom and the Carry On movies.

What’s your favourite book?

I am not a big fan of fiction, but I have been known to read the odd factual book during my travels.

What’s your favourite film?

I am a real film buff. One of my favourites is As Good As It Gets with Jack Nicholson.

What’s your favourite singer/band?

Everything from The Eagles to dubstep (an album was bought for me on Father’s Day).

When you were young, what career did you fancy?

Anything to do with mathematics. Although growing up amid oil fields in my home country, I was always destined for that industry.

What’s the best piece of business advice you have ever received?

To go global.

Worst business advice?

To concentrate on just one area of the market.

What’s your ideal job, other than this one?

To be a university lecturer.

What do you drink?

I enjoy a smooth whisky like a 12 or 18-year-old Macallan or possibly Jameson Irish whiskey. I like to have a good Australian red wine or German and French white wine occasionally, or an Australian port after a meal.

How much was your first pay packet and what was it for?

As a student in Glasgow I worked as a doorman in a bar for £5 a night.

How do you keep fit?

Walking from the house to the car, or sometimes a bit farther at weekends. I used to regularly swim, walk and cycle, but haven’t had the time to enjoy any of these activities lately.

What’s your biggest extravagance?

My BMW X5 car with all its boy’s toys.

With which historical or fictional character do you most identify?

Either Indiana Jones or Kojak.

If you had £1million to give away, what would you do with it?

I would donate it for cancer research.

How would you like to be remembered?

As a good father and husband as well as being unselfish, helpful, joyful, and sometimes forceful. Also someone who always enjoys a joke; even at my own expense.