The A-List: 2008

Job

Partner

Company

Beattie McGuinness Bungay

Work Telephone

+44 (0)20 7632 0445.

Address

16 Shorts Gardens, London, WC2H 9AU

Fantasy business partner

Mephistopheles.

How do you off-set your carbon footprint?

I try to have abnormally smaller feet.

Greatest influence

John Leo Kelly.

Clubs

Follow the Groucho principle.

Favourite gadget

The spatula.

Desert island objects

Inflatable underwear, baked beans and a funnel.

Most-admired politician

Tolerate, never admire.

Favourite media

The Guardian, The NewYorker, Match of the Day, E4, wikipedia.

Biggest risk taken

The daily risk of being found out.

Perfect day

Up a tree with my family.

Who should play you in the film of your life?

Fat Elvis.

Career highlights

Every day I'm not found out.

Fictional hero

Tristram Shandy.

Hidden talent

I feel no pain.

Best job outside advertising

Shamrock salesman.

Lowdown

Dr Bain (he has a PhD in antropology) gave up a teaching career to become a planner. He cut his teeth in New York, working for Alison Burns at Fallon. A voracious reader with a phenomenal brain and a personality that matches his towering frame.

Most expensive purchase

Platinum spatula.

Why are you good at what you do?

Superior mass.