SIR JOHN, 70: TECHY AT HEART
Family: Married with three daughters.
Breakfast: Coffee.
Pivotal moment: Travelling the West Coast of America and working at TRW’s Space Park (a technology giant which Bill Gates has cited as giving him his ‘first big break’ aged 15). ‘I was
hugely impressed. The UK didn’t have anything like that. This was the late 70s and I started Experian in 1980.’
Favourite book: I went to Sandhurst and still love military history. I also love historic novels like Bernard Cornwell’s. But I’m a techy at heart so I love to look over the horizon and find out how things might change.’