Name: Pat Donnelly.

Title: Managing director, Bizmaps, an applications software provider that supports mapping and routing, among other features.

Marital status: Single.

Children: None.

Home: Christchurch.

Most important event: Going to college.

Biggest business break: Not being offered a job with Telecom Eireann when I left college. I joined a start-up company instead and later took part in a management buyout.

Biggest business mistake: Not realising the importance of cash flow when I took over my first company. A lesson learned fast and never forgotten.

Time of getting up: 6:30 a.m.

Time of finishing work: 8 p.m.

Favourite breakfast: Alpen.

Form of exercise: Running.

Favourite TV programme: The Sopranos.

Favourite radio programme: The Last Word.

Commuting time: 15 mins.

Car: Alfa Romeo 156.

Holidays: I've heard about holidays.

Favourite airline: Aer Lingus.

Favourite tipple: Guinness.

Favourite pub: Scruffy Murphy's.

Favourite restaurant: Roly's Bistro.

How do you spend your free time: What free time?

Person you most admire: Dr Richard Leaky.

Dying words: No doctor, you're wrong.