'We will stay true to our values'

摘要

As far as Jeremy Horner is concerned, people can talk all they want. As long as Davis Langdon is the name on everyone's lips, it matters less what they actually say. "Being talked about is good," says the group's new global chief executive with a smile and a shrug. "There is only one thing worse, after all." Well, now it's Horner's turn to be talked about. The former accountant and investment banker has been at the company since 1992 as finance director, something of a behind the scenes man, watching as high-profile public figureheads such as Paul Morrell and Rob Smith came and went. This has been "absolutely" a deliberate decision on Homer's part. His role, he says, never called for him to be in the public eye. "Now I think it does a bit more," he says in his characteristically relaxed and understated fashion.