After a varied career, “everything has coalesced and brought me to the right place at the right time,” Catherine Grum says of her new role as partner and head of family office services at BDO.

Speaking to eprivateclient, the former 50 Most Influential explains she is now “bringing together all [her] knowledge and experience and building on the platform BDO already has with some great family office and family business clients.”

Ms Grum began her career as a solicitor in the private client team at Allen & Overy (now Maurice Turnor Gardner), before moving to Barclays Private Bank, whe...