Before we get into tax and everything, could you tell me a little bit about you and Green and Peter and about how you came to set it up?

So Green and Peter was founded in 1994.

Previously, I was finance director of a retail jewellery company for many years, and the company, due to the recession, had to go into liquidation.

I then ended up... having just moved into my new house, having two young daughters and no income.

And I thought, what do I do? I was playing squash one day with Derek Peter.

And he was financial director of Tottenham Football Club.

He actually left Tottenham.

Did you think at that point that you wanted to specialise in the creative industries or did that come later? No,

Can you start by explaining what a city council member does?

Yes, of course.

And maybe even a little less obvious than somebody might expect.

I think each member has three distinct roles.

One is that they curate their district.

In other words, they are the people who make sure where city resources go.

They have a huge role in development, and they're sort of the point person for non-city resources that come from the county, the state, federal, or philanthropic grants.

And which council members are running for re-election this year?

Robert Green explains from the TED stage.

On April 22nd, 2015, a four-day-old baby girl in Boston became the first healthy infant in human history to have her genome comprehensively sequenced, comprehensively analyzed as part of a clinical controlled trial in preventive genomics.

Why is this important? It's great to be first, but it's important because when children are ill, everybody's upset, but when children remain ill and doctors can't figure out what's going on, well, that casts their parents into a diagnostic odyssey that can take years and be incredibly agonizing.

It can create all sorts of misunderstanding, misdiagnosis, and mismanagement.

Now, sometimes those children will go on to get genetic testing, and sometimes they'll find an answer, and sometimes those answers mean that you can treat the child, but by then it can be too late.

The damage is permanent.

This is particularly tragic because there are so many treatable genetic conditions today.And they're gonna be even more with gene editing, cell and gene therapies.

Were you surprised, or did you expect that?