Hello and welcome to the very first Forever Young podcast.

I'm Jim Kerwin, the director of the Forever Young Club,

and I'm absolutely delighted to introduce somebody who's actually a really good friend of mine at this stage,

Iver Commons, aka the Fat Emperor.

Now Iver is also the chief program officer for the Irish Heart Disease Awareness

Organization, an organization created by David Bobbitt. He speaks all over the world. So he is

truly an international speaker. He speaks about the root causes of modern diseases. And in my view,

he's making an amazing contribution to world health so

ladies and gentlemen please welcome iver commons hey thanks a lot jim and it's great to be here and

that's a lovely introduction well it's well deserved in my view so So look, let's get straight into this.

And I'm always intrigued about how people get to where they are.

And I know you spent a career in Hewlett-Packard.

So tell us about that.

But zoning in on how it prepared you for what you're now doing.

Right. Well, I started in a medical device company five or six years in that business world,

and then Hewlett Packard for 21 years. So really the key thing is I have an extremely technical bent.

I always, since I was a child. So when I did my biochemical engineering in UCD and then got into industry, very quickly I began to lead teams and other people in problem solving activity. So complex problem solving. And over the decades in Hewlett-Packard, I rose higher and higher in the organization until I became a master technologist,

which is kind of a senior management level technical leader. And I would have been using all the way

through the decades, things like Kepner-Trego, statistical inference, and I won't go through all the

tools, but all of the tools of solving complex problems

and with great success and I I progressed a lot in my career based on that did you learn most of those

skills at college or in Hewlett packard a bit of both and you must have been pretty good at managing

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