Ketan Pankhania
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Years in Business: 3
Star Sign: Leo — I can be loud at times!
Most Embarrassing Moment: Too many!! Unfortunately, I have a tendency to do really embarrassing things!
A few years back, on one of my first dates, I went to meet my girlfriend in Birmingham. I accidentally put my sister´s contact lenses on in the morning and assumed that everything was a blur because I had been out the night before. Spent the rest of the day squinting at her — which she found quite strange!! My sister then called asking whether I had seen her contact lenses — I felt very silly! They do say that love is blind….
Pastimes: When I´m not working I try to play and watch as much football as I can. The rest of my time is spent lounging around with my friends as they have the ability to make me laugh so much I cry. I´m a huge fan of The Office, Extras and Only Fools and Horses so I spend any additional time practising my David Brent dance and Del-Boy quotes!
Football Team: Liverpool F.C — if you´re wondering why a lad from London supports Liverpool, it´s purely a family thing. My cousin supported Liverpool and is a lot older (and bigger!) than I so I didn´t really have a choice! I used to spend hours in the streets pretending I was John Barnes — though due to my frame , my cousin thought Jan Molby was more appropriate….
Why are you at Templar?: To further my knowledge and learn as much as I can from exceptionally talented people. If you want to learn, you want to learn from the best…
What's the best piece of advice you've been given?: “Treat people as you would want to be treated” — my mother drilled this into me when I was young and it stuck!
A few interesting facts about Ketan Pankhania:
Ketan Pankhania is part of a charity committee that organises sporting and religious events for his community — they recently organised a Sports Tournament which was attended by over 2000 people!
Ketan Pankhania has dislocated his shoulder twice and has to be really careful how he moves his arm — the last time he did this was lying in bed, resulting in a lot of stick from his friends….
Ketan Pankhania once spurned a girl´s advances at school by throwing her into a puddle of mud. Her mother was not too impressed…
Ketan Pankhania went travelling alone to India for two months last year . His favourite place in the world is Rajasthan. The best two months of his life!
