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The Friday interview

12 January 2012

  • Derry Newman on a roof of solar panels

    Derry Newman of Solarcentury: 'I do not want to look back with regret at 60'

    The head of one of Britain's fastest-growing businesses is joining the executive burnout trend and stepping down

5 January 2012

  • Andrew House of Sony

    Andrew House of Sony: 'It's been a pretty tough year, no question'

    The man in charge of the new PlayStation Vita console is – like his boss Sir Howard Stringer – another Welshman in Tokyo

15 December 2011

  • Dennis Nally of PwC

    Dennis Nally of PwC: 'If auditors aren't doing enough, who's going to pay for them to do more?'

    The global chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers says '100% surety' on audits would have to come at an extra cost

1 December 2011

  • Jon Moulton

    Jon Moulton: a Dickens of a venture capitalist

    The tycoon's strong moral stance shows no sign of dimming, despite his being drawn into the Liam Fox affair

24 November 2011

  • Harold Goddijn, Tomtom CEO

    Harold Goddijn: TomTom's founder needs his business to turn the corner

    Friday interview: The Dutch satnav manufacturer made billions – but now the market is saturated, it needs a new direction | Juliette Garside

17 November 2011

  • Yogananthan Ratheesan, co-founder of Lebara telecoms.

    Lebara co-founder made virtual phone network a real money-maker

    Yoganathan Ratheesan, 35, says he has no idea how he made Lebara such a success, but admits he is good 'at running things'

10 November 2011

  • Roger Bright, chief executive of the crown estate

    Roger Bright of the crown estate: landlord by royal appointment

    The retiring chief executive of the monarch's property manager has stewarded a portfolio that ranges from Regent Street to the seabed

3 November 2011

  • Brian Brink at Anglo American's HQ

    The business of fighting Aids

    Anglo American's chief medical officer Brian Brink explains why the mining company's $10m HIV initiative is good for business as well as for the people of South Africa

27 October 2011

  • Specsavers co-founder Mary Perkins

    Specsavers founder sees plenty of challenges ahead

    Friday interview: Dame Mary Perkins is said to be a billionaire, but she is not about to hang up her spectacles | Sarah Butler

13 October 2011

  • Sarah Curran, founder of my-wardrobe.com.

    Sarah Curran: the woman who built a wardrobe with doors all over the world

    Friday interview: Her web fashion store, My-wardrobe.com, is growing fast. But can Sarah Curran compete with Asos?

6 October 2011

  • Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigslist

    Jim Buckmaster: Craigslist put up an ad for a programmer. It got a chief executive

    Craigslist may be the world's biggest classified ad site but its chief executive still puts service above profit, he tells Graham Snowdon

29 September 2011

  • Aris Kefalogiannis

    Aris Kefalogiannis: 'Olive oil is Greece's liquid gold'

    For the founder of food company Gaea, success has been 'psychologically difficult' in the midst of economic crisis, he tells Helena Smith

22 September 2011

  • Andrea Illy with espresso cups

    Andrea Illy: family businessman who's raising the bar for premium coffee

    Illycaffè chief is a stickler for high standards with no time for Fairtrade – and he'll retrain any barista who doesn't measure up

15 September 2011

  • Antony Thompson, chief executive of Fat Face

    Anthony Thompson: retail high-flyer who's renovating Fat Face

    Fat Face's chief executive has big hopes riding on the Westfield Stratford City opening, writes Zoe Wood

8 September 2011

  • Brendan Barner, TUC general secretary

    Brendan Barber: 'Trade unions are a force for greater equality'

    Friday interview: the TUC general secretary hopes this week's annual congress can give the movement a louder voice in the British economy

1 September 2011

  • Skype chief executive Tony Bates

    Skype boss found route to Silicon Valley on Piccadilly line

    Friday interview: Skype chief executive Tony Bates taught himself programming on the way to work, but must now learn how to make a profit from the web phone service

25 August 2011

  • Stephen Moore, chief executive of Medicinema

    Former movie mogul prescribes silver-screen treatment for patients

    The Friday interview: Ex-20th Century Fox boss Stephen Moore is leading charity Medicinema's campaign to put more cinemas in hospitals

18 August 2011

  • Venezuela's energy minister, Rafael Ramírez, holding up a vial of crude oil

    Rafael Ramírez: Venezuela's oilman finds more reserves for the colonel

    The energy minister is the man who tends the ever-growing mineral wealth of Hugo Chávez's government, writes Virginia Lopez

11 August 2011

  • Stephen Purdew, boss of Champneys Spa Group

    The networker who made Champneys' name

    Spa owner Stephen Purdew likes to be generous to newspaper editors, sports stars ... and sometimes policemen. They give the place a buzz, he tells Simon Bowers

28 July 2011

  • Nick Leslau

    Nick Leslau brings his millions to London's ancient harbour

    The property mogul has done the deal of his life – for historic St Katharine Docks in the heart of the city
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