Name: Fintan LawlorTitle: General manager, Telecom Internet and Eirtrade.

Education: Fellow Chartered Certified Accountants, BA Accounting and Finance (DCU), Leaving Certificate (Templeogue College).

Marital Status: Married.

Wife: One! Pauline.

Children: Two - one boy, one girl. New baby expected imminently.

Home: Knocklyon - near the infamous M50 roundabout. See commuting time.

Clubs: Sensas Irish Bait Services Erne Anglers, Enfield Angling Club.

Most important life event: Birth of my children, death of my son.

Biggest business break: Working for Agra Trading with Friedhelm Danz, John Egan and Michael McPhilips.

Biggest business mistake: Doh! Not buying shares early enough in Microsoft, Notel, Sysco.

Time of getting up: When my daughter wakes around 6.30 a.m., coming weeks expecting several times a night.

Time of finishing work: Typically 7 to 7.30 p.m.

Favourite breakfast: Full fry - a once-a-week luxury. Form of exercise: Swimming, squash.

Holidays: Italy, for food and people; Cyprus, for sun and the crack; and Ballymaloe House for food and total relaxation.

Favourite TV programme: They think it's all over - BBC1. Favourite radio programme: Eamon Dunphy on Today FM.

Car: Volvo V40.

Commuting time: Getting longer every year, currently 75 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes (after 7.00 p.m.) in the evening.

Favourite airline: Aer Lingus - it's Irish and I've travelled with them safely for over 30 years.

The worst thing about travel: Dead time - hanging about airports, not being able to use the mobile phone and the Net etc.

Favourite tipple: Dinner - chablis. Pub - Smithwicks and Carlsberg.

Favourite pub: Orchard in Templeogue.

Favourite restaurant: Kapriol, Camden Street.

How do you spend your free time: Saturdays with the family, most Sundays in fishing competitions.

Person you most admire: No real heroes anymore. I respect people that give the job 110 per cent commitment. I am fortunate that I work with so many of them.

Dying words: "Get the job done".