Peter Bakker has a way of confounding expectations. His first media lunch as chief executive of TPG, the Dutch mail and logistics company, was highly unusual. He made his entrance to the beat of U2, the Irish rock band.
"I wanted to make a bit of a statement, saying that 'I'm not your ordinary CEO, perhaps because of my age'," says Mr Bakker, who was 40 when he assumed control of one of the largest companies in the Netherlands three years ago.
