A man with a mission

Over the next two months, Richard Walker, founder and managing director of Bywater Properties, will not be answering his mobile phone. Together with his father Malcolm Walker, Iceland Food's founder and CEO, he is on a mission. At the end of March, they joined a British expedition to climb Everest. The Walkers' personal goals are to reach the North Col of Everest at 7,020m and to raise at least GBP 1 mln for Alzheimer's Research UK, which is funding research into a cure for early onset Alzheimer's disease. The research is being carried out by UCL's Institute of Neurology. Fingers crossed! What do you like most and least about doing business in Central Europe? Most of all I like the opportunities that can be found in the CE region. The UK has an overly developed real estate market, which makes finding good deals very difficult. On the downside: notaries! We don't have a notary system in the UK and so the whole concept seems bizarre to me. They slow down deals, increase transaction cost