Name: Paul
Robson
Current job: MD of
Medialease
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What was your first ever
job? I left school half way through A levels when it began
to dawn on me that I wasn’t going to get all the qualifications
just by relying on the exams, as I had with my O-levels the
previous year. I got a job working as a quasi-sales apprentice for
one of the large employers in my home town, a manufacturer of 80%
of the UK’s escalator and moving walkways.
Where’s the best place
to go if you want to find out what’s really going on in the
office? We occupy two offices in a shared serviced office
environment. I tend to sit in my office with my head buried in my
PC but my ears wide open, but if I really want to gossip I have to
go down to the smoking shelter, even though I don’t
smoke.
What time do you usually
leave the office? I am no good in the mornings. I don’t
get into the office until 9.30am or 10.00am and slowly wind into
action. I hit top gear around mid-afternoon and get embroiled in
stuff until at least 7pm. More often than not I don’t leave the
office until 8pm, unless it’s for a sneaky beer in one of the fine
village pubs I have to pass on the way home.
What do you do at
weekends? I don’t take part in any active sport or
specific hobbies, other than skiing in the winter and trying to
keep on top of the gardening in the summer.
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By GlobalDataI am trying to learn the piano
and follow my mother’s accomplishments in that regard.
I do enjoy a Friday night down
the village pub and I am a season ticket holder at the Northampton
Saints Rugby club,
Otherwise I tend to dine with
friends, and attempt to get my two boys to put their games consoles
down and get outside.
What’s your favourite
restaurant? That would have to be PRIME in Huntingdon, New
York State. Great harbourside atmosphere, wine list and divine
food.
If you weren’t in your
current job, what would you be? I always wanted to be
involved behind the scenes in the music industry – a
producer/engineer or involved in artist promotion in some way.
Doesn’t pay well unless you’re good, but I guess it’s very
rewarding.
Who is your mentor or
role model? I have always kept in touch with the chap who
gave me my first job in 1985, Ron Wanless. He was sales director at
the firm back then and I spent eight years working for him in a
number of sales roles. He showed me professionalism, hard work and
he was a great verbal communicator.
What is the best thing
about your job? My customers and vendors. Many are
personal friends and all of them are so easy to talk to, meet up
with and work with. There are no airs and graces in the marketplace
I work in. Many meetings I attend they wouldn’t bat an eye if I
turned up in jeans and a tour T-shirt.
What has been your
biggest work mistake? Not expanding the business faster
than we have. We have managed to survive the tough times of late
and now things are improving, but I should have taken a few key
decisions before 2008 to expand the business then.
What car do you
drive? Range Rover Vogue.
What book are you
currently reading? I don’t read books unless I am lying on
a sun lounger. Current book (in half-read state) is Andrew Collin’s
sequel to Where Did it All Go Right?
What is on your CD player at the moment?
I have six CDs on the go in the car: the new albums from Eric
Clapton, Imelda May, The Court Yard Hounds, Kings of Leon, and
Manic Street Preachers; and an old favourite from World
Party.
