Marshall Cavendish Author Profile
Name: Tim Drake
Age: 66
Birthplace: Portsmouth
First job: Graduate
Trainee in Insurance
Current job: Chairman of own Company
(The Drake Team Ltd)
Home: Chiswick
Car: Jeep Cherokee
Favourite book: Middlemarch
Favourite film: Mary Poppins
Favourite music: Mozart
Favourite gadget: £7.50
Casio Watch
Favourite website: TFL (Tansport for London)
or amazon
Best holiday: South West France
Career highlight: Building £17
million turnover sports shoe retailing chain Cobra Sports
from scratch
Career lowlight: Having to sell Cobra
in the recession of 1992
Normal working
day: Some writing, some organising CEO Think Tanks,
some speaking
at conferences
Downtime: Reading,
listening to music (and the wife) and thinking
Best piece
of advice: Enjoy it all: it’s either fun,
or you’re learning and growing.
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