Ian Gray fell into interim management nearly 20 years ago after a stint as chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur, in which he focused the troubled company on its core football and merchandising business.
Since then, he has jumped into dozens of companies, usually as senior adviser to existing management, although he has been known to take an official position if the executives are not up to the job. "I got excited about doing turnround and restructuring," he says. "I also get bored easily."
