Name: Sean Carty.

Title: Managing director, Connect Electronics.

Education: Leaving Certificate (1981).

Marital status: Single.

Home: Clontarf, Dublin.

Most important Life event: Emigrating to Scotland in 1986.

Biggest business break: Returning to Ireland to set up Connect Electronics in 1993.

Time of getting up: 7.30 a.m. in Ireland and 6 a.m. when I'm in our office in the US.

Time of finishing work: 8 p.m. in Ireland and 7 p.m. in the US.

Favourite breakfast: If my doctor isn't reading this "white pudding on toast". If you are, then it's "bran flakes with low fat milk!".

Form of exercise: Cycling and squash.

Holidays: I wish.

Favourite TV programme: The Sopranos.

Favourite radio programme: Ian Dempsey's breakfast show.

Car: Range Rover.

Commuting time: Ten minutes (I must be the only person in Dublin who can get to work in such a short space of time).

Favourite airline: Virgin.

Worst thing about travel: Jet lag.

Favourite bank: Bank of Ireland.

Favourite tipple: Heineken.

Favourite pub: Depends on my mood.

Favourite restaurant: Star of Siam, Monkstown.

How do you spend your free time: Wishing I had more free time.

Person you most admire: Richard Branson.

Dying words: "What happens if I press this".