Marcos Gonzalez-Flower, director of strategy and business
development Emea, webMethods.
What have you got in your pockets?
Wallet, keys, phone
and a few old receipts.
Who would you most like to have a date with?
Nigella
Lawson.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
A
barrister.
How did you get into the IT industry?
From college into
Marconi Avionics working on Nimrod.
What's your favourite chat-up line?
Get your coat,
you've pulled - in honesty, I'm too shy to have one.
What do you do to relax?
Rally classic cars.
What's your favourite song and why?
I get knocked down
but I get up again by Chumbawamba, because it captures the way I
feel sometimes.
What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to
you?
Joined a company in the US and went to a party at the CEO's house.
It was a casual affair and as I entered I began to introduce myself
to the first few people I met. As I went deeper into the house, I
realised I had just introduced myself to the catering staff, who
spent the rest of the party saying "Hey Marcos, how are you doing?"
and acting like my best buddies.
What's your favourite place and why?
My house in Spain.
It's in the south by the beach and is full of happy memories for
me.
If you had a dinner party and could invite anyone, dead or
alive, who would you invite and why?
Mozart - for the
entertainment. Karl Marx - so that he could see the perfect
economic model is impossible to implement. Oscar Wilde - for the
conversation.
Lord Lucan - to find out where he's been hiding. Cherie Lungi,
Fergie, Sharon Stone, Angelina Jolie, Jeri Ryan - guess why
If you won the lottery, what would you do with the
money?
Use it to race classic cars and fund my return to
study.
If you could make a voodoo doll of someone, who would it
be?
That would be telling.
Is there life after death?
No.
What's your best quality?
I make people laugh.
What's the most daring thing you've ever done?
Scuba
dived on the barrier reef with sharks.
What's your most annoying habit?
I twitch my leg and fidget a lot when I'm thinking.
Favourite joke?
Three people go for their final CIA
assassination training and on the final exam the teacher says to
the first male candidate: "In order to pass, you have to show
obedience and ruthlessness. Here is a gun, in that room is your
wife, go and shoot her." The candidate collapses on the floor and
says: "No I can't. I quit."
The second male candidate is then brought forward and told: "In
order to pass, you have to show obedience and ruthlessness. Here is
a gun, in that room is your wife, go and shoot her." The candidate
collapses on the floor and says: "No I can't, I love my wife. I
quit".
Finally, the third candidate, a woman, is brought forward and told:
"In order to pass, you have to show obedience and ruthlessness.
Here is a gun, in that room is your husband, go and shoot him." The
candidate enters the room and closes the door. A shot rings out
followed by four further shots.
After a few seconds, a lot of banging and crashing is heard from
the room, then the woman comes out of it. The teacher looks at her
quizzically and asks: "What happened in there?" To which the woman
responds: "The gun was full of blanks so I had to finish him off
with a chair."
What most annoys you?
People in positions of authority
who abuse their subordinates.
Who is your biggest hero/heroine?
My mother. She died
of motor neurone disease, but refused to let it get her down until
the end.
How would you like to die and what would you choose as your
epitaph?
In a fast car, at an old age, with a big grin on
my face. My epitaph would read: "I told you I wasn't feeling well."