Name: Peter Savage
Current job: MD at
Azule Finance
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Career: MD at
Fineline Media Finance (from 1988 to 2004); MD at County Asset
Leasing (1986-1988); prior to that, Savage spent two years in the
mobile phone sector, working for Carphone Warehouse Group.
What was your first ever
job?
I was a trainee accountant at KPMG for two years.
Where is the best place to go
if you want to find out what’s really going on in the
office?
Because we are a small open plan office, I suppose if you really
want to get the gossip, you need to go to the kitchen.
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By GlobalDataWhat time do you usually leave
the office?
I leave at around 7pm.
What’s your favourite
restaurant?
‘Favourite’ is a difficult one. It all depends on whether you look
at the amount of use or the single favourite. If it is the amount
of use, it would be The Last Viceroy in Bourne End, but actually
the single favourite is probably the Fat Duck in Bray.
What do you do at
weekends?
I play tennis and ferry my kids around, and it all depends on how
much my wife gets me to ferry my kids around and how much I can
play tennis.
Who is your mentor or role
model?
I don’t really have a role model, but I suppose the two people I
owe most to are John Brown – who used to be at Bank of Scotland and
is very well known in the leasing industry (at least to most people
who are older than 40), and John Keevil at Tower Leasing, who
helped me out when I started Fineline, and with whom I keep
regularly in touch.
What’s one of the best things
about your job?
I don’t work for anyone else.
If you weren’t in your current
job, what would you have been?
I would be a tennis coach or a teacher. I am a qualified tennis
coach and when I had my year off from Fineline, I re-qualified. I
have also thought that if and when I hang up my boots of leasing, I
would probably do my PGCE and do some teaching in economics.
What’s your biggest
work/career mistake?
Not buying a small battery rental company, which we tried to steal
it on price, but then the guy turned it down. It is one of those
deals I regret never doing, because it made loads of money. It was
in 1990.
What cars do you
drive?
An Audi A3.
What book are you currently
reading?
I’ve just finished a James Patterson thriller (I, Alex
Cross) but to be honest, I only read when travelling, and I
don’t travel a lot. But I have just come back from the US – I got
caught there for another week because of the volcanic ash
disruption. It was really a trashy book, but it makes me sleep on
planes – and at least I could finish the book.
What’s on your CD player or MP3 player at the
moment?
The most recent iTune purchase was Plan B.
