You could never accuse Mike Norris of having an Elon Musk complex. The chief executive of Computacenter, one of Britain’s oldest listed technology companies, has straightforward tastes. As a young computer salesman, he couldn’t believe his good fortune when his first boss handed him the keys to a shiny new Ford Escort.
Mr Norris does not have a Twitter account and so avoids picking fights with investors, analysts and unsuspecting scuba divers. And unlike Mr Musk — who has grandiose dreams of upending multiple industries — he runs an uncomplicated outfit. It sells PCs, servers and software and helps customers, such as Daimler, Astrazeneca and Rolls-Royce, to install and maintain their IT networks. It’s the dull stuff that companies are happy to farm out.
Computacenter,