Autolease's Mark Chessman answers Barker's Dozen

Date: 15 December 2008

Business Car deputy editor Paul Barker puts 13 testing questions to Lloyds TSB Autolease's Mark Chessman

1. What was your first job? Trainee accountant, The Rover Group

2. What was your first company car? Citroen ZX

3. What did you listen to on your last car journey? Radiohead's Album "In Rainbows" & Radio 5 Live

4. What one thing do you wish you could do better? Speak a foreign language fluently

5. What's your biggest achievement? Having a lovely family

6. Who are your role models? My grandfather, JPR Williams, Atticus from "To Kill a Mocking Bird"

7. What's the stupidest thing you've done? Taking a Christmas job as a turkey plucker whilst a student

8. What was the most hotly debated topic at your last meeting? Residual values

9. What's in your garage? Everything but a car

10. What's the worst thing about your job? Finding time to do all the things I want to do

11. What one law would you make or change? Make parents responsible for the actions of their children

12. What keeps you awake at night? Nothing

13. Who is your ideal celebrity date? Dawn French