The Innovation Group's Rob Terry, as an advocate of insurance software systems, believes in efficiency and streamlined systems.
He must be ruing the day he ever got involved in a project to convert a barn near Fareham, Hampshire into a meeting venue.
City councillors are poised to take legal action that could see the building demolished after they refused his retrospective planning applications at a planning meeting last month.
Councillor Georgina Busher said: "This is the worst breach of planning I have ever seen."
Councillor Donald Stewart agreed: "Anyone could see this was a country club. It is diabolical. It is time we threw the book at him."
The planning committee was told Terry, TIG chairman and chief executive, had expanded the company from small beginnings in Portsmouth in the late 1990s.
It quickly grew and is now based in Whiteley, near Fareham. From 25 employees in 1999 it now has 1,500 in 14 countries.
Chris Ward, Terry's agent, said Terry had been badly advised by his builder who was later sacked.
