Colin Blumenthal

CEO, Complete IT

What has been your business highlight of 2022?

Seeing that all the many years of SMB businesses worrying about moving their data to the cloud has almost vanished.

If you were ruler of your own country, what law would you introduce first?

Actually deliver on equal opportunities for all. And giving my football team Reading FC a three-goal start to every game (actually that even may not be enough…)

Which channel or tech leader (outside of your own company) has impressed you most in 2022?

Fred Voccola's conviction in his commitment at DattoCon, Washington DC to not break what they have acquired with their Datto acquisition.

If you had a warning label, what would it say?

"Be ready for my dry sense of humour."

What was your first job?

Shovelling mushroom manure into sacks to save up for a £100 cassette/radio player in the early 1980s.

What was the last book you read, and was it any good?

Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard. Yes it was good - he is my favourite crime/thriller author.

What's the most important lesson you've learned from another business leader or mentor?

Never judge anyone based on what someone else says about them - make your own mind up.

Who would play you in a movie of your life?

Michael Palin: "You have always got to look on the bright side of life."