Name: Ralf Lissek.
Title: Executive Director of the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
School: Business School, Wuppertal, Germany.
College: Bergische University, Wuppertal, Germany, and Aston Management Centre, Birmingham, UK.
Marital status: Single.
Home: Ballsbridge, Dublin.
Most important life event: Getting a taxi from St Stephen's Green on Friday nights.
Biggest business break: Spearheading the German-Irish Chamber's development as a successful self-financing consultancy.
Biggest business mistake: Not availing of the opportunity to buy our Fitzwilliam Square premises 10 years ago.
Time of getting up: 7.30 a.m.
Time of finishing work: 67 p.m.
Favourite breakfast: Coffee and newspapers.
Form of exercise: Soccer, tennis, hillwalking, sailing, golf, dozing.
Favourite TV programme: Don't have a TV.
Favourite radio programme: Morning Ireland.
Commuting time: 15 minutes (on shank's mare).
Favourite airline: Lufthansa.
Worst thing about travel: Checking in at gates 82-84, Terminal 1, London Heathrow.
Favourite pub: The Purty Kitchen, Old Dunleary Road, after a day's sailing.
Favourite restaurant: Stephen's Green Club (for lunch), The Schoolhouse (for dinner), Le Cave, Grand Place, Brussels (any time).
How do you spend your free time: Smiling.
Person you admire most: My housekeeper.
Dying words: "Now is always the right time." (Curtis Mayfield.)