Dave Dakkache – Director – Web Services

For a company to be successful, it is important to present the right online presence to facilitate engaging clients and business partners alike.

Web design and development is the means with which we can create this online presence.

Why does Web development appeal to you so much?

I have always loved technology, to me the Internet is the heart and soul of technology.

Being part of a team that can bring a website to life using care, attention and a little bit of fun captures an appeal for me that I can’t resist.

It also brings me joy to see a client happy and a cool new website launched.

When you are not up to your elbows in pixels what do you do?
I love graphics and Photoshop and After Effects hold my interest right now. I also like to read, watch movies, tv series and documentaries from a very wide range of genres.

I also love travelling, swimming and hiking if I find myself away from my PC.

Three things that make you tick?
Three things that make me tick are humour, the company of friends and having fun in life.

Favourite food?
That’s a very hard question since I love so many foods; Asian, Indian, European, Middle Eastern…where do I begin? Ultimately I look for freshness and smell.

Hopefully with those two present the taste should be marvellous! I do admit that I don’t like uncooked onions and I am allergic to coriander.

If you could host a dinner with any three people, who would you choose and why?
Terry Pratchett: he writes seriously funny books, any one that can write like that should be very entertaining at a dinner gathering.

Michio Kaku: One of our most prominent theoretical physicists who has a knack for making physics entertaining.

Richard Dawkins: Michio is to Physics as Richard is to biology – his knack for demystifying the miraculous is incredible.

If given the chance to skip work for a day, how would you spend the entire day?
Wake up late, breakfast in bed, a very long lazy shower and a spot of sun baking and reading on a beach with lunch in a nice bistro.

After lunch, I’d spend time in a sauna then spa and have a nice long massage. Perhaps in the afternoon, I would have a coffee in an old style café and dinner in a quiet and tranquil restaurant.

After dinner, I would go for a nice stroll along the beach while the sun goes down and complete the day with a movie, reading or playing cards.

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”

- Robert A. Heinlein