James McHugh

You discovered it.

You perhaps had less opportunity.

So actually, I started as a programmer.

So when I left school, I got a training program with what was Burroughs Machines at the time, became Unisys Computers.

And I moved from the operations department into programming.

and from programming into contracting, and then the natural progression for any good contractor is to go into recruitment.

Yeah.

Well, I went to the States to do a contract and learned recruitment in the US rather than the UK.

Right.

And I came back

probably late 20s.

My father was my best friend and he was ill for some time and then passed.

I took some time off work to reflect on life and I decided to start a recruitment business and that was probably 28, 29 at that time.

Yeah.

Well, my original...

My original argument for calling it K2 was it's the highest mountain if you measure from sea level and the hardest to climb.

But I heard a much better explanation later on when someone said to me, did you name it K2 because it rhymes with McHugh?

So I said, yeah, that's a much, I'm going to pivot to that one.

Yes.

Well, K2 was always a technology recruiter.