SELF PORTRAIT David Rainwater

■ PLACE OF BIRTH: Fort Smith

■ A GREAT MEAL MUST INCLUDE: Cocktails and good conversation before.

■ THE ADVICE THAT HAS STAYED WITH ME DURING MY WORKING LIFE: Don’t take yourself seriously, but do take your work very seriously.

■ I CAN’T START MY DAY WITHOUT: A Mocha Latte from the Dark Side Coffee Company drive-thru hut.

■ THE WAY I RELAX: I like to stay busy so relaxing to me is building something.

■ IF I COULD TRAVEL ANYWHERE RIGHT NOW, I WOULD GO TO: Snainton, England, where my great-grandparents immigrated from in the early 1900s.

■ THE SUPERPOWER I WANT THE MOST: Time travel because I would like to see my parents, grandparents and great-grandparents pre-1970 though adult eyes.

■ MY FOUR GUESTS AT MY FANTASY DINNER PARTY: Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama (to talk music and anything else on their minds), [biographer] Doris Kearns Goodwin (to talk history) and Dolly Parton (to talk business vision and philanthropy, and to laugh with).

■ ONE WORD TO SUM ME UP: Determined