DAVID FORDE, 50: GOLFER, RUNNER AND HEINEKEN LIFER
Born: Galway, Ireland, 1968.
Education: National University of Ireland, where he studied physics.
Family: Married for nearly 25 years to wife Siobhan – he plans to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary with a ‘nice little wine’. The couple have three children, two boys and a girl aged 20, 18 and 15. He commutes weekly from the family home in Cork to London, where he stays in Kensington.
Career: First job out of university was at Heineken Ireland working in the sales and marketing department. A Heineken lifer, he has been based in Poland, the Netherlands and the UK for his 30-year career, taking the top job at Heineken UK and Ireland in 2013.
Car: Drives a Jaguar F-Pace in Ireland ‘probably the last diesel car I ever own’, but he takes the Tube in London.
Favourite books: Ex-England footballer Tony Adams’ autobiography Addicted – all about alcohol dependency – and Open, by one-time Wimbledon champion Andre Agassi. Favourite film: The Commitments.
How he relaxes: Golf, running and gardening. Units of alcohol consumed a week: ‘You’re sounding like my GP. I drink responsibly.’