[Ramrod]

After reading this I feel a bit sorry for him...

He claimed that rather than the riches, the true reward was knowing he was doing the job to the best of his ability, saying the large bonuses were simply a mark of how much you were valued.

"The point is you're greedy, you want every little bit of money you can possibly get because that is how you are judged. I wanted to do my job as perfectly as I could do it because that is how I do a job. It is like solving that equation, it is like seeing that number – there isn't subjectivity, it is make money, lose money – it is just so pure,” he said.

One explanation for his self-confessed obsessive personality could have come with his diagnosis earlier this year of Asperger’s syndrome.