Clinching the dream

“In your first year working in the City, if you put on less than a stone, you’re doing remarkably well,” says 35-year-old Dov Tate. “For me, it was more like three stone in the first two years.”

Tate had played hockey at a high level at school and university, making the Welsh national squad. But when he graduated from Worcester College, Oxford, with a mechanical engineering degree, he heard the siren call of the City.

“You essentially go from the student scenario of having