Gerald Brady

David Sung

David Sung is the partner in charge of the asset management practice in the Pacific Northwest region for Ernst & Young, L.L.P. He has over 26 years of experience in serving the Bay Area investment industry. He is a founding member of the firm's offshore fund committee that focuses in providing uniform and consistent audit services to investment fund clients situated in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and the Americas. His clients include some of the largest global hedge and private equity funds, as well as start-up funds. He works with management in determining the best organization structure and approaches they should take in starting new funds. He advises clients on various topics including accounting and tax issues, personnel needs, compensation arrangements, back office support, selection of attorneys and prime brokers.

As a member of the California Investment Advisor Committee, he co-headed the successful movement to pass SB 723, which made it clear that simply retaining the services of a California-based investment advisor does not cause a non-resident to be subject to California tax on investment income. Likewise, out-of-state investors are not subject to California tax on their investment income simply because they invest in a California-based mutual fund or investment trust. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from the University of San Francisco. He is the treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of Summer Search and is also a board member of Hedge Funds Care. David is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

John C Bourbon

John is Chief Executive Officer of Regulatory Affairs with KYCOS, Ltd. (Know Your Customer Outsourced Services). Based in the Isle of Man, KYCOS provides due diligence, anti-money laundering and training services to financial services providers, as well as expertise in international financial regulation and fraud prevention. John is a former banking regulator and an internationally known authority in the fields of compliance and customer due diligence.

John played a key role in the development of the Basel Customer Due Diligence Paper, published in 2001 by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the world's oldest international financial organization. The Basel Customer Due Diligence Paper later became the basis of the USA Patriot Act 2001 in the US. In addition to being a paper co-author, John served on the BIS Working Group on Cross Border Banking, a distinguished international committee of banking authorities.

From 2000 until 2002, John held the position of managing director of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA). In this capacity, he was the foremost figure responsible for banking regulation in the world's fifth largest financial centre.

Prior to his arrival in the Cayman Islands, John was head of supervision at the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. Before this he worked for nearly 24 years within the financial services arm of the Barclays Bank Group, becoming compliance officer for Barclays Bank Trust Company Limited.

John holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Financial Services Regulation and is a Fellow of both the Compliance Institute (FCol) and the Chartered Institute of Bankers (FCIB). He is a regular speaker at international regulatory forums and lectures at the Isle of Man International Business School.

Philip Shinn

Gregory A Boyko

Gregory is chairman and chief executive officer of Hartford Life International, Ltd., which is a subsidiary of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Gregory is also executive vice president and a member of Hartford Life's Senior Leadership Group, the executive management team that develops corporate policy for the company.

As chairman and chief executive officer of Hartford Life International, Gregory is responsible for the expansion of Hartford Life’s lines of business – including life insurance, investment products and employee benefits – into the global marketplace. Hartford Life is the leading seller of variable annuities in Japan and is a leading provider of life insurance, employee benefits and personal savings products in Brazil.

He joined Hartford Life in 1995 as controller and in 1996 became the company’s chief financial officer and treasurer, where he was instrumental in preparing Hartford Life for its initial public stock offering in May 1997. He was appointed to his present position in 1998.

Prior to joining Hartford Life, he was senior vice president and chief financial officer at ING American Life Insurance Co. Previously, he was a senior vice president and chief financial officer at a major life insurance company. He began his career as a senior tax accountant at Ernst & Young.

Gregory is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He also holds a number of professional degrees, including the Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Life Underwriter, and Chartered Financial Consultant designations.

He is a member of the Connecticut and American Bar Associations, the Connecticut Society of CPAs, Japan Society of New York, chairman of the international committee of the American Council of Life Insurers, Hartford Metro Chamber of Commerce and is a corporator at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford.

Gay Mitchell

Richard Gambel

Walter Brazil

Walter graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University College Dublin in 1980 and entered Deloitte Haskins and Sells as a trainee accountant. Walter qualified in 1983 as an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants.

In 1983, he joined Bailey Gibson, a member of the Clondalkin Group, where he worked as financial controller.

In 1984, he joined the Irish telecommunications company, Telecom Eireann, as systems accountant and in 1987, was made Head of Financial Systems Division, responsible for the introduction of new billing and accounting systems throughout the group.

In 1988, he completed a Masters of Business Administration Degree in University College Dublin.

In 1990, he joined Allied Irish Banks International Financial Services (AIBIFS), a subsidiary of Allied Irish Banks plc. AIBIFS markets the benefits of the Dublin International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) to international corporate and banking groups and to date has over 120 employees and works with 160 international clients from over 26 countries. In 1994, he was appointed Director of AIBIFS, in 1996 he was appointed Deputy Managing Director, and in 1999 he was appointed Managing Director.

Walter has been a member of An Taoiseach's Banking and Treasury Group since 1994 and was appointed Chairman in 2003. Walter is an non executive director of WGZ Bank (Ireland) and DZ Bank Ireland. In 2004 he was appointed Chairman of the DZ Bank (Ireland) Audit Committee.

Dermot Cahillane

Dermot Cahillane joined Depfa Bank Europe plc in 1993 as member of the Board of Directors and was appointed Managing Director in 1997. Prior to joining DEPFA Group, Dermot held senior positions for many years in various national and international divisions of Allied Irish Bank (AIB). As a member of the Board of Directors of Depfa Bank plc, Dermot is responsible for Human Resources and Services.

Ben Conte

Benjamin J. Conte moved to Dublin in 2001 and has been the managing director of the Dublin office of Susquehanna International Group (SIG) since 2003. He moved to Dublin a year after the office had begun operations in the IFSC to setup a pan-European equity trading group. Benjamin previously worked on the floor of the Chicago Board of Options as a specialist in Equity and Index options and at SIG’s headquarters outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a senior trader in the equity trading group. He has been with SIG since 1993 and has witnessed the growth in the sophistication of the global equity and equity derivatives markets and SIG’s international and domestic expansion into a leader in trading, technology, and research. Benjamin holds an MBA from Villanova University in Pennsylvania and a BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Claremont McKenna College in California.

James L Deeny

James Deeny was recently appointed Senior Advisor to Invest Northern Ireland. He was Chairman until September 2008 of the Financial Services Consultative Industry Panel created under the Central Bank and Financial Services Act 2004 to provide industry input to the Financial Regulator. A former chief executive of HSBC in Ireland, he has a background in international banking, insurance and mutual funds and remains active in the cross border international financial services market in Dublin. A graduate of University College Dublin and Yale University, his earlier career prior to joining HSBC in 1983 involved international commercial banking assignments with Chase Manhattan Bank and acting as financial advisor to the Industrial Development Authority of Ireland. He holds a number of directorships with prominent domestic and international companies in Ireland including Credit Agricole, PNC International Bank and Hartford Life.

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Pat Farrell

Pat took up the role of chief executive of the Irish Bankers Federation (IBF) in January 2004. IBF is the leading representative body for banking and financial services with a membership of over 60 banks which includes all of the retail banks and mortgage lenders and the leading international banks based in the IFSC. In that capacity, Pat sits on the Executive Committee of the European Banking Federation which represents the interests of commercial banks across Europe.

In Pat’s previous career he held a series of senior management positions in both the public and private sector, most notably as head of Marketing & Communications and general manager Retail Operations, EBS Building Society, chief executive Galva Private Hospital Galway, and general manager of Sligo Regional Hospital.

From 1991 to 1997 Pat served as general secretary of Fianna Fail and was a member of Seanad Eireann in the period 1992/93.

Pat is a director of the VHI and chairs the Audit Committee. He was also a member of the Commission on Financial Controls and Systems in the Health Services whose published report acted as an important catalyst for the programme of reform of the public health services now underway.

Pat is a Leitrim native, married to Margaret and they have two children, Cian and Ria.

Mary Fulton

Mary Fulton is the partner leading Deloitte's financial services audit group in Ireland. Mary has extensive experience in the financial services sector including insurance and reinsurance, banking and securitisation and has been involved with many businesses establishing in the IFSC. During her career she has been carried out numerous regulatory assignments in Ireland and in the UK, both compliance and regulatory intervention. Mary trained with Deloitte in Belfast and spent a number of years with the firm in London before returning to Ireland in 1991, becoming a partner in 1997. She is a chartered accountant and has a degree in economics and accounting from the University of Sheffield in England. She is the joint author of Deloitte's publication 'Responsibilities of Directors in Ireland'.

Brian Healy

As Director of Trading and Regulation, Brian has responsibility for the development and integrity of the Irish Stock Exchange's markets for traded securities. He also has responsibility for the Exchange's IT strategy as well as for the management of the relationship with its strategic partners - both for trading and settlement. He is one of the Exchange's senior management team of three executives.

He has been an active participant on behalf of Ireland’s capital markets in the development of securities law in the European Union in particular working in Europe on the Market Abuse Directive and on the new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. He is a member of the Committee of European Security Regulator’s Consultative Panel of Experts for MiFID.

Brian's graduate and postgraduate study was in the areas of Economics and Finance. He is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Securities Institute.

PJ Henehan

PJ Henehan is a tax partner in Ernst & Young's Financial Services Group and has been with the firm for over 25 years. With more than two decades of experience in the taxation field, he is a leading expert in structuring financial products for banks, fund management and insurance companies, as well as for high net worth clients.

He is a member of the Ernst & Young Global Financial Services Group, consisting of professionals from such disciplines as tax, structured finance, audit and actuarial services. PJ lectures regularly on taxation for various professional organisations in Ireland and abroad. He is also the author of numerous articles and booklets for Ernst & Young and its clients. He is a member of the Taoiseachs Insurance Committee, which advises Government on the development of Ireland as an insurance domicile of choice. He is a Fellow of the Irish Taxation Institute and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Michael Jackson

Michael is a partner in the Banking and Financial Services Department of Matheson Ormsby Prentice. He has extensive experience in advising a wide range of domestic and international clients on the structuring, establishment, marketing and sale of financing and investment vehicles and products in Ireland and other jurisdictions. In particular he specialises in advising on the legal and regulatory issues surrounding the establishment of alternative investment funds, the structuring, offer and sale of investment instruments and investment products and the provision of investment advice and other financial services.

Alberto La Rocca

Alberto La Rocca is the chief executive officer of Pioneer Alternative Investments. Based in Dublin, Alberto is responsible for the investments, operations and distribution of the Alternative Investment Division of Pioneer Global Asset Management S.p.A.

Prior to joining Pioneer Investments, Alberto spent eight years with UniCredito Italiano. During this time he was assistant portfolio manager of the fixed-income proprietary portfolio, then becoming the head of the fixed-income proprietary portfolio. Following that he was the head of Global Proprietary Trading before joining Pioneer Investments in 1999 as chief executive officer.

Alberto holds a Laurea Diploma in Management and Finance from Bocconi University, Milan and a Certified Accountants Professional Qualification from the University of Lecce.

John Larkin

Peter Lynch

Peter has served as chief financial officer of eircom since January 2001 and on the board of directors of eircom Group since March 2004. He is a director of the eircom Employee Share Ownership Trust and a trustee of eircom's main pension fund.

Prior to joining eircom, Peter was group finance director of Adare Printing Group plc from 1995 to 2000. He was at ABN AMRO Stockbrokers and Riada Corporate Finance from 1990 to 1995, latterly as managing director of stockbroking.

Peter is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and a member of the Securities Institute.

Deirdre Lyons

Charlie McCreevy

Frank Gast

Frank joined BearingPoint (then KPMG Consulting) in 1998 as a Consultant in the Financial Services Practice (eStrategy & eProcesses) focusing on business performance improvement for investment banking clients. Since 2001 he has been responsible for product and business development, particularly focused on fixed-income, repo and securities lending.

He has lead several projects for international investment banks, exchanges, clearing houses and software providers including business strategy development, providing process analysis concepts and software selection - always in the field of trading, clearing and settlement of capital markets products (e.g. securities lending, repurchase agreements, bonds, derivatives).

Frank graduated from the University of Trier in Business Administration, with an emphasis on Banking & Finance and Marketing (1992-1998).

Brian Cowen

Nollaig Murphy

Nollaig Murphy is a finance and capital markets lawyer with specialisms in the areas of structured and leveraged finance, syndicated lending, derivatives, and securitisation and repackaging.

Having trained with McCann FitzGerald Dublin, Nollaig joined A&L Goodbody following a number of years in the finance practice of Clifford Chance London, where he specialised in syndicated and structured lending, in particular advising financial institutions and venture capital houses on leveraged finance. While in London, he also spent over a year on Merrill Lynch London's Repackaging and Credit Products desk advising on a wide variety of credit products.

Nollaig currently advises many leading domestic and international financial institutions and law firms on leveraged and structured finance transactions, and has recently advised on a number of award-winning international securitisations. He lectures widely to domestic clients on structured finance issues, and is a member of a number of industry working groups in the financial services industry.

Nollaig was recently nominated by international peers as one of only three Irish lawyers to be included in the International Financial Law Review's 'Guide to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers'.

Derek Moriarty

Derek Moriarty is a consulting partner at Deloitte specialising in financial services.

He has extensive experience in leading business advisory and consulting engagements for international and domestic financial services organisations particularly in relation to operational strategy.

Derek is a member of the Deloitte Global Financial Services team and led the International Deloitte team that produced the “Study on the Future of the Financial Services Sector in Ireland” for the IDA.

Derek is a commerce graduate of University College Dublin and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and he has spent most of his professional career with Andersen prior to joining Deloitte in 2003.

Frank Monks

Daniel J Mitchell

Dan Mitchell is the McKenna Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Heritage Foundation. He is one of America's experts on the flat tax and has been the leading international voice in the fight to preserve tax competition, financial privacy, and fiscal sovereignty. His responsibilities at the Foundation include authoring papers, writing editorials, working with the public policy community, and presenting the free-market viewpoint to newspaper, television, and radio media.

In addition to his Heritage Foundation responsibilities, Dan co-founded the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, an organization formed to protect international tax competition. Prior to joining The Heritage Foundation in 1990, Dan served as an economist for Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon. Dan also spent more than three years beginning every day by co-hosting a television show.

Born in Mt. Kisco, NY, Dan Mitchell earned a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University and undergraduate and Masters degrees from the University of Georga. He resides with his three children in Fairfax, Virginia.

Paul McGowan

Paul is a tax partner in KPMG Ireland. He has specialised in financial services tax for the last 20 years being involved with clients establishing in the IFSC since its inception. He focuses particularly on banking, securitisation, leasing and mutual funds. He is a past chariman of IFIA and is a member of the Taoiseach's working group on Banking and Treasury issues. He has been appointed to the EU Arbitration Panel on Transfer Pricing and has recently taken over as Global Leader of KPMG Financial Services Tax Network.

Wolfgang Mansfeld

Wolfgang has been a member of the Executive Board of Union Investment since 1994. He is also Board member of the German Fund Industry Association BVI and chairman of its Committee for International Affairs. Since June 2002 he has been president of EFAMA, the European Fund and Asset Management Association (formerly known as FEFSI), being re-elected in 2004.

Since 2003, Wolfgang has been a member of the Expert Group on Asset Management, advising the European Commission on the integration of European financial markets.

He is also is a member of the Consultative Working Group on Investment Management assisting the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR).

Prior to joining Union Investment Group in 1990 he held senior positions in the German Banking Association, Deka Investment, and LGT-Group.

Damian Neylin

Patrick Neary

Patrick Neary is the Chief Executive of the Financial Regulator, which is responsible for the regulation of the Financial Services industry, both from a prudential and a conduct of business viewpoint.

Patrick Neary was appointed to the position of Chief Executive in February 2006. Prior to this, he held the position of Prudential Director of the Financial Regulator from 2003. In this role his responsibilities included the protection of consumers’ deposits, funds and policies. He is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA). He was previously Head of Securities and Exchanges Supervision and Deputy Head of Banking Supervision in the Central Bank of Ireland. He began his career in 1971.

Liam O'Reilly

Liam is chief executive of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority (IFSRA), which is responsible for the regulation of the financial services industry, both from a prudential and a conduct of business viewpoint. Liam was educated in University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. He has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and a PhD in Econometrics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Statistics. He has served at a senior level in the Central Bank in economic research, financial control, international relations and financial markets. He served on the review group on auditing in Ireland and was a member of the interim board of the Irish auditing and accounting supervisory authority, which prepared the legislation to set up a Statutory Supervisory Body for the Accountancy profession.

Aileen O'Donoghue

Rachel is the managing director of Hansard Europe Limited, an IFSC International Life Company. Hansard Europe Limited, part of the Hansard financial services group, which targets many markets across Europe.

Rachel is a Commerce graduate from Edinburgh, and an FCMA, and has worked in the life assurance industry since1983, both in a UK domestic context and in the international industry. She is an active participant in insurance issues and is currently an IIF Board member, and chairman of the IIF EU Affairs Committee. Rachel also serves on the International Insurance Group, which operates under the aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach, and was appointed to the IFSRA Industry Consultative Panel.

Paul Reck

Paul Reck is an international tax partner at Deloitte specialising in financial services tax, including banking, insurance and fund management. Other special assignments include cross border leasing, structured finance transactions and securitisations.

The International Tax Review – World Tax Report 2005 identified Paul as one of the leading individual tax professionals in Ireland in relation to cross border structuring and M&A transactions. He is also co-author of the Irish Taxation Institute's annual tax publication 'Taxation Summary'. Paul was part of the core Deloitte team that produced the 'Study on the Future of the Financial Services Sector in Ireland' for the IDA.

William Slattery

William assumed the position of managing director of State Street International (Ireland) Limited in February 2003, following the acquisition by State Street Corporation of Deutsche International (Ireland) Limited. William had been managing director of Deutsche International (Ireland) Limited since January 2002. He worked for the Central Bank of Ireland for more than twenty years until 1996 and was responsible for supervising Dublin's International Financial Services Centre from its establishment in 1987 until 1995. Immediately prior to leaving the Central Bank he was deputy head of banking supervision where he was responsible for the supervision of all Irish banks and building societies.

William joined Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (Ireland) in 1996. Following a short period in Ireland, he moved to London where he held a number of senior compliance and risk management positions in the asset management division of Deutsche Bank. From 1999 - 2001 he was managing director and global head of risk management for the division.

Guy Saintfiet

Guy is head of Alternative Investments at KBC Asset Management (KBCAM). He is 34 years old and has 10 years industry experience; seven years service with KBCAM. Guy joined the Dublin office of KBCAM Ltd in December 2002, having worked as a portfolio manager in KBCAM NV, in Brussels, since 1998. Guy's role evolved from running quantitatively driven equity funds into Alternative Investments at the beginning of 2002. Prior to that, he spent three years working with Bank Van Breda as an account manager for HNWIs. Guy graduated from the EHSAL School of Economics, Brussels in 1996 with a Licentiate in Applied Economics (equivalent to Masters) followed by a Degree in Portfolio Management in 1998. He has also completed the CEFA (Certified European Financial Analyst) qualification.

Enda Twomey

Pat Wall

Pat is a tax partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dublin. He specialises in investment management, insurance and pensions. He is a member fo the IFSC Clearing House Group (CHG) which has overall strategic responsibility for development of Ireland's international financial services industry. In that capacity he chairs the Pan-European Pensions Task Force which has a mandate to advise the CHG on how Ireland should position itself to benefit from the emerging EU single market in pension provisions. He is also a member of the PwC Eurofirm Insurance and Pensions Group. He played a key role in the framing of the all island financial services strategy recently announced by Brian Cowen and Peter Robinson.