Name: Tim Duffy
Age: 56
Company: MeetingZone
Turnover: £11m (2010)
First job: Design engineer with EMI Radar
Dream job: Venture capitalist
Car: Mercedes Estate
Economy, business or first class: Economy and hope for upgrades!
Most extravagant purchase: Flat in Paris.
Most-played song on your iPod: “Walking on a Dream” by Empire of the Sun.
Best business book: Not a great fan of business books!
Worst business moment: Dealing with difficult shareholders.
Proudest business moment: Raising £2m capital to start MeetingZone from scratch in the dotcom crash of 2002.
Your business mentor: I’ve learnt a lot from many people over the years, particularly the executive team I worked with at PictureTel in Boston during the nineties and the VCs at Kleiner Perkins and Accel.
Next big thing: Can?t say. In my experience it always comes from left field and is rarely predictable!
