...is a lifelong technologist and occasional executive. He has been alive for many years, and was paying attention for some of them. He served as Chief Technology Officer for an energy-technology startup for seven years, at a company that was not called Great Auk Ltd. He can usually be found at home on the outskirts of London, doing something that looks vaguely like work if you squint hard enough.

If you assembled a Frankensteinian composite of Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry and John Cleese, you would have a creature of the same height as Gavin, but vastly funnier. You would also have some other issues to deal with, but let’s not let that get in the way of a good analogy.