And as a mild-mannered academic in a black fedora, he seems an unlikely fit in Nigeria's tough-guy environment.
"The Internet... grew out of a shielded, nice-guy environment in academia," Web usability expert Jakob Nielsen said.
These eateries, which are common locations for bachelor parties and nights out with the guys, construct environments with a sense of sexual entitlement for customers, and sometimes even male staff members.
Curtis, "the environment guy," is friendly despite his deer-hunting jackets and hats.
This interview with Joseph J. Plumeri, chairman and chief executive of Willis Group Holdings, the insurance brokerage, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. A. I was once a command-and-control guy, but the environment's different today.
"Sambucetti is a great guy for our environment as he encapsulates our values as a club, " continued Middleton.
"As a group and as a squad we're disappointed to lose a player of his potency and his attacking force and he's a great guy in the environment as well.
He's got a nice group of guys and the environment now is a very positive one".
The moment this group of guys created an environment for negativity it began to foster that.
"He's a decent guy in a guilty environment," is how producer Samm Haillay sees it, before showing me a rough cut of a key scene: a tragic and breathlessly calibrated car chase through the motorways that surround Gateshead.
And here's a guy raised in an environment that was relatively normal in the sense that there was no — he wasn't able to be squirrelled away somewhere, or he didn't live in a homogeneous neighborhood where he was part of the homogeneity.
