I’m the fifth of six children. By child five, your parents are very relaxed. You can do what you want! I grew up in a small town in Ireland. I was trying to decide whether to do law or medicine and two sisters were junior doctors, working through the night. I thought: ‘That looks hard – I’ll become a lawyer!’ Some irony there.
I went to work for Andersen Consulting for two years. I really enjoyed it but thought I would be better at law. So I went and did the New York Bar but couldn’t get a job in any of the big firms so I came back to London. It was easier to get a job in London in 1990.
