RUPERT STERLING was for many years Alex’s boss. A patrician, old school City type he has always flown close to the wind in his business dealings and has been arrested for insider dealing on two occasions and even did time in an open prison in the mid 90s. However he clearly knows where the bodies are buried, in that his brushes with the law seem not to have impeded his City career. These days he is semi-retired, acting as a senior ambassador for Megabank and serving as head of the bank’s art committee.