CurriculumVitae: Bob Hunt
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Name: Bob Hunt
Age: 47
Company: Paradigm Mortgage Services
Job title: Chief executive
Where do you live? Hampton-in-Arden, Solihull
Describe your current job:
I have overall responsibility for the management of Paradigm Partners' mortgage club, Paradigm Mortgage Services.
What were your first and last jobs?
My first job was in the Royal Air Force, where I studied engineering. My last role was director of key accounts at Abbey.
What have you done in between?
I have been a broker for most of my career. Over the past two decades I've worked for two companies, Hill Samuel Group and Abbey, in a variety of roles connected to the broker sector.
How does your career to date compare with your aspirations when you were younger?
I come from a working class background and don't recall having clear aspirations as a young man. I've worked hard and been lucky.
What has been the defining point of your career and why?
I responded to an advertisement promising a lucrative career in financial services in 1982 and took the plunge, or I'm not sure what I'd have done.
And the most embarrassing?
Cold calling with a telephone sellotaped to my hand.
What work ambition would you like to achieve by retirement?
To have built a profitable and sustainable business that employees say is a great place to work.
How many mortgage payments do you have left?
Forty-nine, but university fees may change that.
Fun Stuff
What's your Favourite holiday destination?
Sydney Harbour in our winter and Daymar Bay, Cornwall on a crisp and sunny spring day.
What would you take to a desert island and why?
"A blow-up doll and a puncture repair kit," as Oliver Read said. I concur.
What's your Favourite holiday destination?
Sydney Harbour in our winter and Daymar Bay, Cornwall on a crisp and sunny spring day.
What would you take to a desert island and why?
"A blow-up doll and a puncture repair kit," as Oliver Read said. I concur.
Who is your secret celebrity crush?
Keira Knightley.
What's your mobile ringtone?
Ring ring.
What's the most expensive gadget you've ever bought?
I'm not sure it's the most expensive, but the wackiest is a boxed, mint condition Stylophone.
What's the craziest hobby you've ever attempted?
Paragliding, particularly being towed by a Land Rover around an airfield. There was an alloy seat between me and the tarmac 100m below and a rotary blade 15 inches above my head.
