Matthew Bloch is the managing director of Bytemark Hosting which is York's largest hosting and cloud computing firm.

He co-founded Bytemark with school friend Peter Taphouse, shortly after they both finished college and moved to York.

Mr Bloch's aim was to build a self-sustaining and low-maintenance technology business where he wouldn't have to leave home very often. This has backfired as the company's 3000-odd customers, 28 staff and a two year-old son force him into leaving the house a great deal.

Mr Block studied Classics & Computer Science at King's College, in Cambridge "badly", so he claims. Instead he used the college connections to learn as much as he could about the internet. Everyone has been very understanding, and Bytemark has grown and run at a profit every year since 2003.

Bytemark opened its £1.2 million data centre in York in 2013. Its customers include brands such as Carling.com, Asda and the Royal Institution among thousands of other domains, supported by a backup site in Manchester, and 10Gpbs national fibre network.

Bytemark Hosting was named one of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Tech Companies in the North at the GP Bullhound Northern Tech Awards 2014.

Its York data centre, YO23, was named a finalist in the DatacenterDynamics EMEA Awards for Innovation in Medium-sized Data centre in December 2013, and the business is shortlisted for the Technology Business of the Year in this year's Press Business Awards.

In 2015 Bytemark took over Derby-based Swordfish Hosting, and the company is looking at further acquisitions.

Greatest achievement?

"If I think about every day I don't get sued, crash my car, drop my son or mortally offend another human being, I think "Yes! Another amazing achievement by me!" and write a page in my autobiography. My autobiography is 12921 pages long.

What makes you most angry?

"I'm too easily distracted to stay angry. But if I grit my teeth and marshal a laser beam of outrage, it'd be directed at the government's consistent cruelty towards the disabled, and its continuing sell-off of UK assets.

"We're a poorer country for that sort of vandalism."

Biggest mistake?

"Ongoing since about the age of 15: being a sloppy student."

What do you need to make life complete?

"A dinner party with Victoria Coren-Mitchell, John Carmack, Clement Attlee and Bertrand Russell. They complement me on the eight-course tasting menu I just cooked, with accompanying wines and light show. We play poker into the small hours in my octagonal swimming pool; Victoria takes us all for thousands of pounds, we laugh it all off as she donates it to the NHS. Then in the morning we decide to club together and start a radical techno-libertarian politics of the left. That'd probably do it."

Why do you make a difference?

"I like to be a good host and look out for other people."

Epitaph

"Something classy and Latin: "mortuus est sicut vixit: intectus plumatus clamansque". It means "he died just as he lived: honest, forthright and stylish."