On the spot with Simon Jackson

What was your first job?

Painting industrial premises.

If you weren’t in your current position, what would you be doing?

If money was no object, undertaking community work and work for less-fortunate people.

What was your worst mistake?

Not meeting my wife, Vikki, earlier.

What is your ideal day away from the office?

A game of golf at a picturesque course, followed by watching Leeds Rhinos win and, in the evening, dinner with my, wife Vikki, and three children, Adam, Gabrielle and Joshua.

Name the one person you would most like to have dinner with?

Can I have two people, please? Les Dawson (for the high amusement value) and Yitzhak Rabin (for political interest).

What was your best subject at school?

Geography.

What are your hobbies?

Golf and watching the Rhinos Rugby League.

What would you do if you won the Lotto?

Make my family financially secure (although I wouldn’t tell my children until they were much older), and support a host of worthy causes. I wouldn’t give up work with Shulmans; I’d just change emphasis.

What is your top time-saving tip?

Touch each piece of work only once.

What is your favourite time of the day?

Early evening when I get home to the family – but particularly on Friday night as that is a special evening.

What is the best thing about being in Yorkshire?

The accessibility to the wonderful countryside.

What would your epitaph be?

He never took anybody too seriously, he put maximum effort into everything he did but, above all, his family meant the world to him.