Heyrick Bond Gunning

Heyrick Bond Gunning was born in London but spent the first eight years of his life in Hong Kong. He went to school in London and university in Grenoble and Manchester, then sold antiques before joining the British Army. He served in the Grenadier Guards for six years and worked in London, Northern Ireland, Macedonia and Kenya.

He left the army to join a financial services start-up. Three years later he received a call from DHL in the Middle East asking him if he was interested in setting up a branch in Iraq.

He now advises companies looking to do business in difficult environments, particularly the Middle East.