Putting a face to the name.

What do you do?
I’m the manager of La Dolce Vita. For years I was a contented media partner of the show but when Brand Events asked me to the ‘other side’ I didn’t hesitate.

What’s great about the company?
My colleagues. They are clever, compassionate, industrious and very funny. I look forward to going to work.

Makes you laugh?
People slipping on banana skins is superb. I laugh at everything…the darker the better. Can’t beat The Thick of It, Mock the Week, Morecambe and Wise, Noel Fielding, Jimmy and Alan Carr, Michael McIntyre and Russell Howard. 

Favourite films?
Sideways, Le Gout des Autres, Leon, Little Miss Sunshine, La Vita e’ Bella, Meet the Parents, Amadeus and absolutely anything with Harrison Ford.

Ideal dinner guests?
John Ruskin, Russell Brand, Roberto Benigni, Michelle Obama and Harrison Ford.

Love and hate?
I adore my family and Aprilia scooter. Loathe peaches.

What’s in your Brand Events box?
The 50p that I flipped ten years ago to see if I should start a new life. Tails I go, Heads I stay. It came up tails so left my job, flat and car within a fortnight and moved to Florence for five years. That coin did a good job.