Name: Eddy Ankrett
Age: 67
Company: I’m a non-exec at creative agency WAA
Turnover: £3m. We employ more than 30 staff. I also run Dateline.
First job: Hepworth’s the Tailors
Dream job: Helping to set up and develop Comet Discount Warehouses.
Car: XK8 now replaced with Range Rover (I’ve gone from boy racer to aged driver!).
Economy, business or first class: First class
Most extravagant purchase: My wife
Most played song on iPod: “You lift me up” by Josh Groban
Best business book: The Google Boys
Worst Business Moment: When Stephanie Slater was kidnapped in 1992. I was the managing director of Shipways Estate Agents and Stephanie was working for me at the time. It changed my life forever.
Proudest business moment: Setting up Dixons Estate Agents
Your business mentor: My wife (again)
Next big thing: I am now a “street-fighting entrepreneur” and a mentor to young people with ideas, passion and energy. This is how I spend 80 per cent of my time and I love it.
