Dinah was the longest-serving member of Risk Waters’ staff. She joined Risk magazine in 1989, transferred to Hong Kong in 1995, and then moved to New York early in 2000 to work on Waters products. In New York she became engaged to Neil Cudmore, a colleague whom she'd met in Hong Kong and who had also moved across to New York.

The one virtue almost every client mentioned was her professionalism. She was successful in what she did because she made clients feel at ease. They enjoyed meeting her and many of them became her friends. Dinah was always willing to take on anything asked of her and go anywhere on business she was asked to go. She took everything in her stride and never got flustered, even during organisational or travel crises that would have taxed the resources of the United Nations. Dinah could be stubborn but you could never get upset with her, said a former colleague, who also recalled that Dinah brought a touch of glamour and class to the office.

Enormous fun to be with, Dinah loved to cook for her family and friends. Many former employees still recall her amazing meringue-topped mince pies that she made for the London office at Christmas when the company was still quite small. Naturally, these pies were luxurious and Dinah insisted they be washed down with champagne.