The A-List: 2008

Job

Chief executive

Company

Emap Consumer Media

Work Telephone

+44 (0)20 7859 8618.

Address

189 Shaftesbury Avenue, London,

Fantasy business partner

Steve Jobs.

Greatest influence

Those who have encouraged us to be creative, contrary and disruptive.

Clubs

Soho House, The Hospital.

Favourite gadget

The iPod still makes me smile.

Desert island objects

The complete works of Elmore Leonard; London Calling by The Clash, a top-of-the-range radio.

Favourite media

The Sun and the Corriere Della Sera and Curb Your Enthusiasm. On mags and radio I plead the Fifth. Emap does too much good stuff to chose.

Biggest risk taken

Launching Grazia in the UK.

Perfect day

Lunch in Martina Franca is still hard to beat.

Career highlights

Launching new things and reinventing older things.

Fictional hero

Jackie Brown.

Best job outside advertising

Editing.

Lowdown

It's been a tricky year for Keenan, who has continued to run Emap's consumer operations, despite the prospect of a break-up of the business. He presided over a restructure of the business, designed to prepare it for the future, but it looks as though its radio and magazine businesses will go their separate ways.

Why are you good at what you do?

Because I work with extremely talented and passionate people.