What gets you out of bed in the morning? The anticipation that I’ll be able to help someone with their business.

How would you describe your day job to a child? Helping people to get what they want out of life

What is your biggest achievement to date " personal or professional? My family

What does a typical day look like for you and what are you currently working on? Every day is different

 -  I’m lucky to be able to work on a wide range of things and interact with lots of different people

If you could switch jobs with someone, who would it be? No one - I enjoy what I do. That said I wouldn’t mind playing on the Senior golf tour, so Miguel Angel Jimenez - he usually looks like he’s enjoying himself!

What is on your wish list for your next five years here? Establishing Ashton Allsop as part of our local business community

What are your biggest professional challenges? Keeping up to date in a world of constant change

If you could choose anyone, who would you pick as your mentor? Stephen Covey the (late) author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

If you could change one thing about working here, what would it be? Not really a change but continuous improvement via our focus on good process and opportunities for automation through the application of technology

What do you like most about your job? Interacting with lots of different people and challenges

What advice would you give to recent new entrants? Think about how you can stand out from the crowd - what makes you different?

What is your motto or personal mantra? What goes around comes around!

What’s your favourite blog? Don’t know if this counts as a blog but I always read/enjoy Luke Johnson’s weekly article in the business section of The Sunday Times

What’s the most recent app you’ve downloaded but are yet to use? I like to test out new products that may be of interest to our clients - I’m looking at something called Soldo at the moment which is a prepaid expense card which helps to manage company spend

Given a chance, who would you like to be for a day? Miles Davies - I’d love to be able to play great jazz music

What’s your favourite line from a film? Can’t think of a line but one of my favourite films is Sideways

What is your guilty pleasure? Too much chocolate!