GULLIVER interviewed Kevin Johnson as research for a piece on luxury travel in the print edition this week. Mr Johnson worked as a chief-of-staff and a palace manager for various heads of state, Russian billionaires and royal families. Part of his job was to oversee the travel arrangements of his super-wealthy employers. There wasn’t space to include many of his anecdotes in the print article, but it was a fun chat.
What was fascinating was, for people for whom money really is no object, just how prosaic some of their needs were. It was not unusual for them to send an employee ahead to some remote island to install their own IT infrastructure, for example, at fantastic cost. Mr Johnson said that this was often done under the guise of cyber-security. Sometimes it was: even on beach holidays they would often bring in their own guy to work with hotel staff to make e-mail and the like completely secure. But often, he suspected, it was more to do with a fear of missing something on the box. “You could be on the most remote island possible...Continue reading
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