I always try to get to the hotel gym at least once while I’m away. Traveling, sitting in day-long meetings, and formal dinners make me restless. I feel a lot fresher after the gym.

I love this magazine and have been reading it since it started. Light relief from working on the plane and easy to read while standing in the queue for passports.

My wife bought these for me when we won the Lever Omo account in anticipation of all my trips to São Paolo. They’re still unopened in my briefcase! I haven’t had time to sample all the delights of Brazil yet but hopefully I will get to explore at some stage.

My boys, Oliver and Toby, like to give me presents when I go away. To my clients, it just looks like rubbish cluttering up my briefcase; to me they are extremely important documents.

I hate not being contactable. I find it so frustrating that so few phone chargers are adaptable to other phones so I always take my Sony Ericsson charger with me (complete with adapter). With it, I never have the horror of the low battery bleep.