Martyn Best

1. What do you like most about your job?
The variety, the fun and the great team we have here at Paver Smith, and the exciting time we are having in making Paver Smith a leading UK agency.

2. What is the best example of PR you have seen recently?
I love plays on words, and clever use of puns, so as a headline, when Celtic were humbled a few years back by Inverness Caledonian, who could but smile at "Super Cally Go Ballistic, Celtic are Atrocious"

A great one out of this office came when the Harlem Globetrotters stayed at the Hard Days Night Beatles themed hotel and they found longer beds for them, "When I'm six foot four" - well done, Emma and Dan.

3. Where is your favourite place in the world that you have visited?
City-wise, Paris, as it was the first foreign city I ever visited, and the many, many times I've been back have always been truly evocative of that great first adventure abroad; and beach-wise "de Caribbean, mon" - for the sheer pace, reggae groove and relaxing attitude of everyone there; oh and the sunshine and red stripe.

4. What do you do to unwind?
Chill with the kids - whether it's Jake at a rock concert, or Greg at the rugby, or perhaps seeing Abby play Cello, or even little Grace just enjoying her new-found world.

5. What are you currently working on?
Helping build on the success of the Everton Tigers' first season as a professional basketball team; and looking at ways in which we can grow our own business both by internal growth, and by nearing completion of our first major, and upcoming acquisition.
6. What is the best experience that working in PR has given you?
Meeting and getting to know the Harlem Globetrotters on their recent visit to Liverpool.

7. What are you doing this weekend?
This weekend amazingly, I have spurned watching Everton in favour of following the Everton Tigers in their play-off game.

8. What are you reading at the moment?
I usually have a few on the go, and just now, you've caught me with "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom, a truly moving book that everyone should read; "The Jelly Effect" by Andy Bounds, a great guy and good friend, and "Teach yourself Spanish" to try and gain an ounce of cred with Dougal on our next visit to Barcelona, and when we go www.spanishtrek.co.uk -ing in June.

9. What is your most prized possession?
My freedom and that little white china Jazz Singer I bought in a market years ago for a fiver.

10. What is your favourite quote?
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?"
- Marianne Williamson (often wrongly attributed to Nelson Mandella, though to be fair you could imagine him saying this.)