John Bohan, an equity stakeholder in Apex Funds Services since the company’s early days, describes Apex’s story from its 2003 origins to 2014, as it opens its 34th office in Jersey last month. Bohan, a nominee for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, oversees Apex’s European and Middle East business from Ireland. His job involves developing new business with the MDs of APEX’s offices in EMEA.

A career in financial services consulting can provide so many very different career paths and learning opportunities, that it's a good idea not to start out in this career with too fixed an idea of what you will be doing, recommends Gillian Comerford, who works with Accenture. Consultants need to be able to listen, be flexible, and be open to exploring every opportunity that comes along, she says, as sometimes the greatest and most unexpected of outcomes can stem from what initially appear to be very mundane opportunities.