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Friday, 23rd January 2026

The Finance Dublin Seventh Annual Conference 2006

28^th - 29^th March 2006, Dublin

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Speaker Biographies

Gay Huey Evans

President
Tribeca Global Management PLC
Ms Huey Evans, President of Tribeca Global Management, Europe, joined Tribeca Global in September 2005. Prior to joining Tribeca she had been the Director of Markets at the Financial Services Authority (1998-2005) responsible for the UK Listing Authority, supervision of all market infrastructure providers, including exchanges, ATS, clearing and settlement houses, market policy and market surveillance (including the Code of Market Conduct). She was also appointed Capital Markets Sector Leader at the FSA. Prior to her joining the FSA, Ms. Huey Evans worked with Bankers Trust Company (1984-1998) in both New York and London as a Senior Managing Director in Risk Management Services. In 2004, Ms Huey Evans was appointed chairman of the Joint Forum, a group of experts working under the umbrella of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS). While at Bankers Trust, she was the Chairman of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) from 1994-1998. She holds a BA from Bucknell University in Economics. Ms Huey Evans is a co-opted member of Tate's Audit Committee, a Trustee of Wigmore Hall and a Governor of the Benjamin Franklin House in London.

Charlie McCreevy

Commissioner for the Internal Market
European Commission
A chartered accountant, Charlie McCreevy was appointed European Commissioner for the Internal Market in 2004. Prior to that he had been Minister for Finance since 1997. In this capacitiy, he was President of the ECOFIN Council from January to June 2004. He was elected to Dail Eireann (Parliament) for Kildare Constituency in 1977, and was a member of Kildare County Council from 1979 to 1985. He was Minister for Social Welfare from February 1992 - January 1993, Minister for Tourism and Trade from January 1993 - December 1994 and Frontbench Spokesperson on Finance from January l 995 - June 1997.

Ruari Quinn

T.D., and former Minister for Finance

Former Minister for Finance at the time Finance Dublin was launched in 1996. Ruairi Quinn was the first Labour party Minister for Finance, and in his period of office he initiated/oversaw such reforms as the Taxes Consolidation Acts, the Criminal Assets Bureau, and oversaw the IFSC's transition from a 10% ring fenced regime to part of the nationwide 12.5% corporation tax regime. He was leader of the Labour Party until he stood down from that position in 2002. His recently published biography 'Straight Left' has gone for reprinting in a paperback edition, which will appear later this year.

Michael Koller

Chief Regulatory Officer
Swiss Reinsurance Company
Michael Koller joined Swiss Re as Chief Regulatory Officer of the Group at the beginning of 2005. Before he had worked for Swiss Life for more then ten years, where he had become Chief Risk Officer in 2002. Michael Koller, a Swiss citizen born in 1964, graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) with a masters degree in mathematics followed by a PhD in mathematics. He is an Actuary SAV and Swiss Certified Pension scheme expert. Michael Koller is regularly giving lectures as an extraordinary Professor for Insurance Mathematics at the ETH.

Patrick Neary

Chief Executive
Financial Regulator

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.

Guido Ravoet

Secretary General
European Banking Federation (FBE)
Guido Ravoet became Secretary General of the European Banking Federation in January 2005, following his 8 years office at the helm of the Association of Belgian Banks and then Febelfin (Belgian Finance Federation). He was previously Secretary General of the European Association of Cooperative Banks and has remained throughout his career very focused on European affairs, for instance as a current member of the European Economic and Social Committee. Guido Ravoet also has more than 10 years banking experience, working with Cera bank (now KBC) as Head of Research Department and then Regional Director. Guido has a PhD in Law and a Masters Degree in business economics.

Freddy Van den Spiegel

Chief Economist and Director of Public Affairs
Fortis Bank
Actual functions:Chief Economist and Director Public Affairs Fortis. Managing Director of several Belgian, Luxembourg and French Investment Funds (SICAV). Professor Free University Brussels in - Financial Management, Financial Markets and Financial Institutions and Visiting Professor Warsaw University since 1992. President of the Co-ordination Committee of the Belgian Financial Forum. Specific interest in Banking Regulation and Supervision: Academic research and teaching about the architecture of financial systems since 15 years. Chairman of the Steering Group regulation and supervision of the European Financial Services Round Table. Member of the European Commission expert group « banking », preparing the priority program for the next commission. Specific input about regulation – supervision in that expert group (May 2004). Chairman of the Consultative Panel of CEBS. Director of the Public Affairs Office of Fortis. Member of the Inter Institutional Monitoring Group for EU financial integration (mandate European Parliament). Chairman of ELEC Belgium (European League for Economic Cooperation)

Eoin Ryan

TD and MEP, Co-ordinator of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee
European Parliament
Eoin Ryan was elected as a Fianna Fáil MEP for Dublin in 2004. Prior to that, he had substantial experience in domestic politics serving as a TD for Dublin South East since 1992, a position that he will continue to fill until the next general election in Ireland. Between the years 2000 and 2002 he was appointed as Minister of State for Local Development and The National Drugs Strategy. He was also a member of Dublin City Council from 1985 until 2000. He served in Seanad Éireann from 1989 to 1992 and was Government Whip of the Seanad in his final year there. He served on numerous Oireachtas committees during his time in Irish politics. He was Chairman of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality and Women’s rights from 1997 to 2000. He also served as a member of the Joint Committees on Enterprise and Small Business and Environment and Local Government. From 2002 until 2004 he was Chairman of the Oireachtas Transport Committee and he is also a member of the Dublin Port and Docks Board.

Stefan Bichsel

President
European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA)
Born in 1955 in Berne Switzerland, Stefan Bichsel studied law at the universities of Lausanne and Berne, and was admitted to the Bar in 1982. Between 1982 and 1985 he was Personal Assistant to a member of the Executive Board of Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) in Zurich, Switzerland. He left to take a Master of Laws degree at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and was admitted to the New York and Connecticut Bar in 1986. From 1986 to 1987 he was Foreign Associate at a lawfirm in New York. In 1994 he attended the Advanced Management Program at Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1987 until 1993 he was with Pictet & Cie., private bankers in Geneva, Switzerland. He left this bank to become the CEO and President of Swissca Holding AG (today: Swissconto Holding AG) Berne and Zürich, Switzerland. Under his leadership Swissca was built up from scratch to become the number 3 investment fund company in Switzerland and one of the leading institutional asset managers. From 1999-2002 he was the Chairman of the Swiss Funds Association and a FEFSI (European Fund Association) board member. He then left these positions to become a member of the Management Board of Robeco Groep NV, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, as from 1 January 2003, where he is responsible today for Robeco’s international activities. In June 2005 he was elected president of EFAMA (European Fund and Asset Management Association), representing the industry interests of 23 country associations and numerous corporate members at the European level and assets in excess of EUR 10 trillion. As of January 1, 2006 he is Partner of the Group Holding Company at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie at Geneva.

Mark Heaney

Head of European Fund Services
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Mark was born in Belfast and brought up in North Down, attending Regent House Grammar School. He obtained a BA (hons) in Accounting from The University of Ulster in 1989 and subsequently qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1992. Following graduation Mark joined Allied Dunbar Assurance as a graduate trainee in the Investment Administration Division, which supported Allied Dunbar’s fund management business. In 1994 Allied Dunbar Asset Management was merged with its sister company Eagle Star Asset Management to form Threadneedle Investments and Mark moved across to Threadneedle to head up a projects team, initially responsible for the integration of the two organisations. In 1997 Mark joined Price Waterhouse (subsequently PricewaterhouseCoopers) in the Investment Management Group within their Consulting business, working on a number of projects for major Fund Managers and Fund Administrators. Mark left PwC after almost two years to join INVESCO Asset Management. Mark worked for INVESCO for six years in a number of roles including Managing Director of their offshore funds administration business based in Dublin, and latterly was Director of Operations UK and Ireland, which covered Mutual Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency, Institutional Portfolio Accounting and Investment Administration (Trade Processing, Corporate Actions, Reconciliations and Securities Data Management). In May 2005 Mark joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management in his current role as Head of European Fund Services. His primary responsibilities are to oversee the external Fund Administrators who provide Fund Accounting, Custody, Trustee and Transfer Agency services for the Goldman Sachs Asset Management offshore funds range domiciled in Ireland, Luxembourg and Cayman, representing over $60bn in assets.

James L Deeny

Former head of HSBC Ireland & Senior Advisor, Invest Northern Ireland

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.

Pat Farrell

Chief Executive
Irish Bankers Federation

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.

Gary Palmer

Chief Executive
Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA)

Gary Palmer is the Chief Executive of the Irish Funds Industry Association, the representative Association for the investment funds industry in Ireland. Gary is also a director and board member of the European Funds and Asset Management Industry Association (EFAMA) and of the US based National Investment Company Service Association (NICSA). He is a member of An Taoiseach’s (the Prime Minister’s) Investment Funds Committee and Asset Management Task Force as well as being a member of the Department of Finance’s IFSC Tax Working Group and the Financial Regulator’s Financial Services Consultative Industry Panel. Gary is also on the board of the National College of Ireland’s International Financial Services Institute.

A graduate of University College Dublin, prior to his current position Gary was the Director of Development with The Institute of Bankers in Ireland.

Tom Healy

Chief Executive
The Irish Stock Exchange

Tom Healy is Chief Executive of the Irish Stock Exchange. He is also: a member of the Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority; a member of the Industry Consultative Panel of the Irish Financial Regulator; a member of the Market Participants Consultative Panel of the Committee of European Securities Regulators; a previous Chairman of the Working Committee of the Federation of European Stock Exchanges; a board member of Aviareto (International Registry of aircraft assets); and a member of the Advisory Board of the European Capital Markets Institute.

Aileen O'Donoghue

Director
Financial Services Ireland
Appointed as Director of Financial Services Ireland in 2002. Prior to this appointment, Aileen was Assistant Director of Social Policy in the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) and previous appointments included work in the industrial relations and economic research areas. Aileen is a member of the National Economic and Social Council, the Department of the Taoiseach’s Clearing House Group, the Expert Group on Future Skill Needs and the Advisory Board for the NCI International Financial Services Institute. She is also a member of the IFSRA Industry Panel and chairs the Panel’s international financial services working group. At EU level she is a member of the UNICE Financial Services Working Group. She has a B.A from University College Dublin and has a MBA from the Smurfit Graduate School of Business, UCD.

Financial Services Ireland is a constituent part of the Irish Business & Employers Confederation with a membership of over 180 financial institutions active in Irish and international markets. Its membership includes banks, insurance companies, funds administration and management companies, treasury companies, stockbrokers and investment companies.

Sarah Goddard

CEO
Dublin International Insurance and Management Association (DIMA)

Sarah Goddard is the Chief Executive Officer of the Dublin International Insurance & Management Association (DIMA), the representative body for international re/insurers operating in Ireland, now one of the world's leading cross-border re/insurance centres. She sits on a number of industry groups and panels including the IFSC Insurance Group and the Industry Consultative Panel for the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority.

She has spent more than 20 years involved in the international re/insurance sector, primarily as a specialist journalist, commentator and broadcaster. She has moderated and given presentations at conferences around the world, most recently focussing on the impact of the turbulent economic environment on the international re/insurance business, and the regulatory changes currently underway globally.

Deirdre Lyons

Head of International Financial Services
IDA Ireland
Deirdre is head of International Financial Services, IDA Ireland. She is responsible for all regulated and non-regulated international financial services organisations and the continued promotion of the IFSC in Dublin. She is a member of the Taoiseach’s Clearing House Committee and IFSI Advisory Board. Prior to this she was department manager of the Strategic Business Group. She has a business background in corporate finance and prior to IDA worked in the computer industry.

Denis Casey

Executive Director
Irish Life and Permanent PLC and Chairman, Financial Services Ireland
Denis started his career in banking in 1976 with the AIB Group before joining Irish life in 1980. A Certified Accountant he has held a variety of senior management positions in Ireland and the U.K. He was appointed Chief Executive of Irish Life’s Retail business in 1999, a position he held until July of this year when he became Chief Executive of permanent tsb. He is an executive director of Irish Life and Permanent PLC, Chairman of Financial Services Ireland and a past president of the Insurance Institute of Ireland. He has also served as a member of the IFSRA Financial Services Consultative Industry panel. Denis is from Dublin, he is married to Jo and they have 3 children.

Frank Monks

Managing Director
Nexgen Capital Limited
Frank Monks was a co-founder of Nexgen Financial Solutions and is responsible for the group's main risk-taking unit. Previously he started two IFSC operations, Cariparo Ireland (1999-2001) and KBL Ireland (1996-99). Frank developed his career with Hill Samuel Bank in Ireland, starting as an accountant and leaving as Finance & Operations Director (1980-1994). Prior to that he trained with Cooper & Kenny, now subsumed into Ernst & Young (1974-1980). Frank served on various industry boards and committees and holds business studies degree from Trinity College, Dublin.

Reza Vishkai

Head of Alternatives
Insight Investment

Rick Hodgdon

Executive Managing Director
Transamerica International Reinsurance Ireland
Rick has been with Transamerica/AEGON since 1999 in various Senior Management roles. Most recently, he has been responsible for Transamerica International Reinsurance Ireland in Dublin and has been at the helm since its inception in 2001 as Executive Managing Director. Prior to Transamerica, Rick was CEO of an A&H reinsurance company that was acquired by AEGON. Previously he was Executive Vice President of Life Re, with responsibilities for life reinsurance and personal accident business, respectively. Rick has also been held Senior Management roles in direct writing life and health companies. His present accountabilities include the P&L responsibility for Transamerica International Reinsurance Ireland. He is Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of DIMA, and Chairs the Life Reinsurance sub-committee, as well as being a sitting member of the IFR Committee on Solvency II and the IFSC Working Group. Rick is a graduate of Concordia University with a Bachelor of Science degree, and has attended Executive Management Business programs at Bishops University and University of Denver.

Trevor K. Killen

Director - Ireland
Invest Northern Ireland
Trevor was born in Belfast and was educated at Brunel University, London; University of Ulster, Belfast and Florida Institute of Technology, reading International Business, Government and Management. He entered government service in 1978 working in Human Resources, Taxation, Organisation and Methods and Computer Systems before moving to the Industrial Development Board (one of Invest NI’s predecessors) in 1985. Trevor has an MBA in International Business and Industrial Development, a BSc. In Government Studies, a postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Management. Throughout his career with Invest NI / IDB, Trevor has specialised in International Sales, Marketing and Promotion, working in the British, US and Japanese markets and specialising in the retail financial services and e-business markets. From 1990 to 1992 he was Director of the Northern Ireland Bureau in Washington DC. Trevor has also worked in the private sector, including a period of internship with Rockwell Corporation, USA and was a Visiting Fellow of the Faculty of Business and Management at the University of Ulster. Trevor has been engaged in international marketing and sales since 1992 and has extensive knowledge of the call centre industry and is widely experienced in dealing with Irish, British, European and American companies. From 1992 – 2000 as IDB’s Director, Network Services, Trevor was responsible for inward investment in financial services and contact centres and in 2003 won the Irish Contact Centre Industry’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Trevor also held the post of IDB’s Director of Marketing, before taking up his present post in Dublin in 2001. As Invest NI’s Director, Ireland, Trevor leads a team based in both Dublin and Belfast targeting Irish and multinational companies based in Ireland for inward investment into NI, particularly in financial services and ICT. Trevor is married and lives with his wife and son in County Meath. Outside of work, Trevor’s interests include Irish traditional music and culture, broadcasting, reading, history and fine single malt whiskey. In the past he has been responsible for organising major Irish festivals, concerts and cultural exchange programmes.

Colm Fagan

Former Chairman
Life Strategies

Colm Fagan is former chairman of Life Strategies, the actuarial and strategic consultancy, which he founded in 1993. He is also Chairman of the IFSC Solvency II Sub-Group, Ireland. Life Strategies has played a key role in the development of Ireland's thriving international life insurance sector: the firm helped secure authorisation for almost 30 companies now transacting international life assurance from Ireland and provides ongoing advice on strategy, finance, risk management and product development to more than 50% of the companies active in this sector. Life Strategies also has a thriving business in the domestic Irish and UK life insurance consulting markets.

Colm is Appointed Actuary for a number of Irish-based life insurers. He was also approved by the Financial Services Authority and the UK actuarial profession to act as Actuarial Function Holder and With-Profits Actuary in the UK. At present, he is With-Profits Actuary for two UK closed with-profits funds. In addition, he was appointed by the Irish High Court to act as Independent Actuary for three transfers of life assurance undertaking.

Before forming Life Strategies, Colm was Finance Director, Appointed Actuary and Company Secretary for Bank of Ireland's insurance subsidiary, Lifetime Assurance.

He has presented actuarial papers nationally and internationally on bancassurance, embedded value accounting and on techniques for hedging and reserving for guarantees on unitised investment products. He holds non executive directorships with Hannover Reinsurance (Ireland) Limited, Axa Global Distributors (Ireland) Limited, and Standard Life International

He is a former President of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland and is a member of the Government-appointed IFSC Insurance Group.

Ciaran McGettrick

Business Development Director
Capita Ireland
Ciaran McGettrick is Business Development Director for Capita in Ireland. He was previously Managing Director of Prudential Europe Managemant Services and moved to Capita when it acquired Purdential’s business in December 2003. . Ciarán was also part of the start up team who formed a unit linked life company in 1991 for Abbey Life Ireland and during his twelve years with them grew the business to hold 7 per cent market share. He held a range of positions with the organisation including Finance Director, Company Secretary and was responsible for setting up the administration, investment and HR functions. He previously worked for Irish Life and Allied Irish Investment Bank. Ciarán is a qualified Certified Accountant with over 30 years experience in the Financial Services Industry in Ireland. Ciarán has extensive contacts in the Financial Services sector and has been actively involved in the industry, including acting as Irish President of the Association of Certified Accountants.

William Slattery

Managing Director
State Street International

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.

Enda Twomey

Deputy Chief Executive
Irish Bankers’ Federation
Enda Twomey is Deputy Chief Executive at IBF and Head of Member Services - Wholesale. Enda has extensive commercial experience as a financial services professional having worked in Manufacturers Hanover Ltd. in London from 1989 to 1991, the National Treasury Management Agency from 1991 to 1997, and William Fry Solicitors from 1997 to 1999. In his current role, Enda represents the interests of the international banks in Ireland and carries overall responsibility for corporate governance matters. He is a sector representative member of the Banking and Treasury Committee of the Department of An Taoiseach, the Company Law Review Group, a Director of the Investor Compensation Company Limited and a member of the Dormant Accounts Board. He also represents the sector at key EU fora through his membership of the European Covered Bond Council of the European Mortgage Federation and the Financial Markets Committee of the European Banking Federation. He holds a BCL from University College Cork, an MBS in Finance from the Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin and a Diploma in Corporate Governance, also from the Smurfit Business School. Enda was admitted as a solicitor in 1988.

Terence Moll

Senior Partner and Head of Research
Consilium Capital Management
Terence is Head of Research at Metis Capital Management, a shortterm quant trading outfit which runs the Metis Prime Fund. Before cofounding Metis he was head of international asset allocation and fund of funds at Citadel Investment Solutions in South Africa.

Walter Brazil

Managing Director
AIB International Financial Services

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.

David Dillon

Senior Partner
Dillon Eustace
David Dillon is an Irish citizen and was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1978. He is a graduate of University College Dublin where he read law and has an MBA from Trinity College Dublin. David Dillon is a founding partner and a senior partner of Dillon Eustace where he works principally in the areas of corporate finance, financial services and banking. He is also a director of a number of Irish based investment and management companies. He is a member of a number of committees and sub-committees established by the Irish Law Society relating to commercial law and financial services. He is a member of the Investment Funds Committee (Committee I) of the International Bar Association and speaks regularly at the IBA and other international fora. He is chairman of the Taoiseachs Funds Group and a member of the Financial Services Clearing House policy group. He is the Law Societys nominee to the LeInster Societys Published Accounts Awards Committee.

John Larkin

Partner, Head of Insurance Unit
William Fry and Chairman of An Taoiseach's IFSC Insurance Group
John Larkin qualified as a solicitor in 1984, having studied at University College Dublin (BCL). In 1992 he was awarded a Certified Diploma in Accounting & Finance (C Dip AF) by the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. John Larkin John joined William Fry in 1990 and became a Partner in 1993. He is head of the Firm's Insurance Unit. He has assisted many insurance companies (both life and non life) and reinsurance companies to establish in Ireland and has advised on cross-border passporting issues. He has also advised on restructurings and portfolio transfers and on many insurance based transactions including risk securitisations. He is current Chairman of An Taoiseach's IFSC Insurance Group and is a former Chairman of the Law Society's EU & International Affairs Committee. He is recommended in the 'International Who's Who of Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers' and 'The Guide to the World's Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers'. He is also listed as a leading insurance practitioner in Ireland by 'Global Counsel's 'Which Lawyer'.

James Cottle

Managing Director
Airbus Financial Services
Employment: 1) Citibank, N.A., London Branch, Graduate trainee Asset Based Finance department in 1979. Appointed Resident Vice President in 1985. 2) Airbus Industrie in Toulouse, France, from 1986 until December 1993 as Senior Director in the Customer Finance division. 1994-2002 Senior Director, Sales Finance with Airbus North America Holdings, Inc. in Herndon VA, USA. 2002-2003, Head of Participations and Joint Ventures, Airbus S.A.S.; non-executive director Airbus Financial Services in Dublin, Ireland. 2003 to present, Managing Director Airbus Financial Services in Dublin, Ireland. Also, currently Vice-Chairman of the Federation of Aerospace Enterprises in Ireland.

Jeremy Carter

Director, European Structured Finance Group
FITCH Ratings
Jeremy Carter is a director in Fitch Ratings' European structured finance group. As a senior member of the credit derivatives team, Jeremy is responsible for conducting rating analyses of synthetic CDOs, writing market research, and analyzing innovative synthetic structures. Before joining Fitch, Jeremy ran the London office for Institutional Investor. During his time as a journalist he edited Derivatives Week and Securitization News as well as writing for both the Journal of Structured Finance and Risk magazine. Jeremy is a graduate of Exeter University.

Richard Pike

Director
Ci3
Richard’s main role within Ci3 is as Product Manager for the SWORD system for Operational Risk Management. A founder of Ci3, Richard has consulted on market risk, credit risk and operational risk with major financial institutions including UBS, Citibank, Schroders, Unicredito and AIB Bank. Before joining Ci3, Richard worked at ABNAmro, Bain and Quay Financial Systems. He is a frequent speaker and writer on risk management topics.

Ci3 partners with financial institutions to provide them with risk control, compliance and certainty over related management processes and information. It offers its clients "insight and intelligence – based on vast experience and an unparalled knowledge of our field. Formerly known as COMIT Ireland and with ten years experience working with Irish and international clients, Ci3 has proven itself to be an efficient and effective partner, ensuring that our clients are always in control. Credit Risk • Market Risk • Portfolio & Asset Management • Corporate Banking".

Mark Fitzgerald

Chief Operating Officer
Citibank Ireland Financial Services

Michael Barr

Partner
A&L Goodbody
Michael Barr qualified as a solicitor in 1997 with A&L Goodbody and became a partner in 2004. Michael advises on various aspects of mutual funds law and regulation and on the establishment, authorisation and listing of funds in Ireland. He advises on the setting-up of various types of UCITS and non-UCITS Irish regulated funds and in respect of the establishment of Cayman funds. He also works with fund service providers in connection with custody, administration, prime brokerage and other service agreements. Michael also has significant experience in general corporate and IT law which are of much benefit to the firms funds industry clients. Michael has also assisted a number of companies involved in foreign direct investment into Ireland as regards their setting-up here and relationships with Irish Government grant agencies. Michael has been published on a number of legal topics and has tutored in the Law Society of Ireland in respect of general corporate matters.

Michael Jackson

Partner
Matheson Ormsby Prentice

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.

Con Keating

Principal
The Finance Development Centre
While Con is perhaps best known for his quantitative work in investment performance measurement and prediction with techniques such as the Omega function and metrics, he has also been involved with pensions as a fund manager and trustee since the early 1970s, when he managed the NATO provident fund. He chaired the European Federation of Financial Analysts’ Societies committee on methods and measures from 1994 until 2001. He is a member of the steering committees of the Finance Research Institute and Financial Econometrics Research Centre at the University of Warwick, and a member of the Societe Universitaire Europeene de Recherche en Finance. He is currently an advisor to the OECD’s working party on private pensions. He has written and published widely on pensions management and funding, including the OECD occasion paper Fair Value Accounting and Pensions.

Dermot Butler

Chairman
Custom House Administration & Corporate Services Ltd
Dermot S. L. Butler, who is Chairman of the Dublin based hedge fund administrator, Custom House Administration & Corporate Services Ltd (“Custom House”), has over 35 years experience in the financial services industry. He has worked variously as a stock broker and stockjobber (specialising in South African mining stocks), before becoming a commodity broker and market maker in commodity and metal options traded on the London markets. Dermot has testified before at hearings on option regulations held by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and as an expert witness before the US Tax Court, the Texas Security Commission and the American Bar Association on the subject of commodity option trading and regulation. He has also written numerous articles and spoken at numerous conferences on the administration, regulation and related aspects of alternative investment and hedge funds. In 1983 Dermot Butler helped set up McDonnell & Co., the Bermuda Fund Management Company and issuer of the “McD” range of funds. He sold his interest in that company and moved to Dublin in 1989, where he established Custom House, which specialises in setting up and administering alternative investment and hedge funds. Dermot, who is a Director of several fund companies listed in the Irish Stock Exchange, is Deputy Chairman of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).

Guy Saintfiet

Head of Alternative Investments
KBC Asset Management
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.

Gerry Brady

Managing Director
Capita Financial Administrators (Ireland Limited) and Capita Financial Managers (Ireland Limited)
Gerald Brady acts as an independent director and a consultant to a number of Irish collective investment schemes and was also appointed Managing Director of CFG Ireland in 2005. Prior to this, Mr Brady was Regional Managing Director of Bank of Bermuda in Europe and Country Head of Bank of Bermuda in Ireland where he had overall senior management responsibility for the international funds administration, custody and banking business being conducted in Dublin and Europe for Bank of Bermuda. Mr Brady was also a member of Bank of Bermuda’s Senior Management Committee in Bermuda. Mr Brady joined Bank of Bermuda in 1986 as Global Head of Internal Audit based in Head Office in Bermuda. He subsequently became Managing Director of Bank of Bermuda in Cayman in 1990 and returned to Dublin in 1995 to set up Bank of Bermuda’s operations in the IFSC in Ireland. Prior to working with Bank of Bermuda, Mr Brady spent a year with Hodgson Impey in Dublin and eight years with KPMG. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1980 (FCA) and as a chartered financial analyst (CFA) in 1988, after obtaining First Class Honours in Economics at Queen’s University of Belfast in 1977, coming first in the Economics Faculty. Mr. Brady is a director of several large publicly quoted companies and has chaired a number of international financial conferences.

Fiona Reddan

Deputy Editor
Finance Dublin
Fiona Reddan is deputy editor of both FINANCE magazine, Ireland's only monthly title dedicated to finance and financial services, and Finance Dublin, the 'bible of the IFSC'. In this role she is responsible for identifying trends and developments in the industry, both domestically and internationally, and reporting on and analysing such developments. Fiona is also involved in producing specialist supplements on many financial services topics including: stockbroking, treasury, specialist debt instruments, and securitisation, as well as playing a key role in the design of the company's conferences, including the 'Annual Finance Dublin Conference' and the 'Annual International Securitisation Conference'. Her presentation at this conference is based on research she is preparing as part of her Masters in Commerce (Research), UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business. An honours graduate in economics and finance from the University of Limerick, Fiona previously worked in New York as an M&A analyst with investment banking research firm, Dealogic, and with Allied Irish Bank.

Nollaig Murphy

Partner
A&L Goodbody

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'.

John Thirlwell

Non-executive Director
SVB Syndicates Limited and former Director, British Bankers’ Association
John is a well-known speaker and writer on risk, regulatory and governance issues, particularly business and operational risk. Until March 2003, he was a Director of the British Bankers’ Association, which he joined in December 1996 from Hill Samuel Bank, where he had been a Director and Chief Risk Officer. At the BBA he was responsible, amongst other matters, for regulatory and risk issues, including setting up and being Chairman of the BBA’s Global Operational Loss Database. He was heavily involved, on behalf of the banking industry, in discussions with regulators concerning the new Basel Capital Accord, the EU Capital Requirements Directive and the FSA’s Integrated Prudential Sourcebook He is a non-executive Director of SVB Syndicates Limited and Chase Cooper Ltd and non-executive Chairman of the Bankside Gallery.

Olivier Renault

Vice President, Quantitative Credit Strategy
Citigroup
Olivier Renault is a Vice President in the Fixed Income Quantitative Research department of Citigroup Global Markets where he specialises in research in structured credit products. He holds a PhD in financial economics from the University of Louvain (Belgium) and has published research in many journals and books. Prior to joining Citigroup, Olivier worked for Standard & Poor's and was a lecturer in finance at the London School of Economics where he taught derivatives and risk. He was also a consultant for several fund management and financial services companies.

Jonathan Humphries

Director and Senior Operational Risk Consultant
Aon UK
Jonathan leads Aon’s operational risk mapping team and has five years experience in the banking and insurance sectors, previously specialising in developing new technologies for the mining and engineering industries. Throughout his career, he has developed extensive project management experience. Since joining Aon in 2001, Jonathan has been responsible for managing the design, development and delivery of OpBase. In addition to this, Jonathan has played a leading role in the operational risk debate and the role of insurance as a capital mitigant, engaging policy makers in Brussels, national banks and domestic regulators. He has also been working with banking and financial institution clients in developing their operational risk financing strategies. Jonathan started his career working as a civil engineer and project manager managing the construction of multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects, which he did for about seven years. He subsequently moved into market research and product development for three years, working on a number of exciting initiatives including the development of leading edge technologies for the ground engineering and mining industries and developing new renewable energy technologies. In 2000 Jonathan joined a risk consultancy firm in London and lead its Technology Risk Practice assisting clients across a broad range of industries in identifying, quantifying and mitigating technology risks. Jonathan is a regular speaker at operational risk and capital allocation conferences and writer on the subject of operational risk mitigation. He is a chartered engineer and member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and has an MBA from City University Business School, London.

James Grennan

Partner
A&L Goodbody
James Grennan is a corporate and commercial partner whose specialist area is the insurance industry. His practice embraces all aspects of insurance law and regulation including the set up and authorisation of insurers, ongoing regulation, the provision of cross-border services, sale and purchase of insurance companies, insurance businesses, captive insurance, authorisation and regulation of insurance intermediaries and statutory compensation schemes. He advises life and non-life insurers, captives, reinsurers and intermediaries. He played a major role in the A&L Goodbody legal team which advised the Irish Government’s Department of Finance on the drafting of heads of the Bill for the establishment of IFSRA, the new single financial regulatory authority. He was also instrumental in having Irish Law amended to facilitate the operations of life assurers in the International Financial Services Centre. James is the Irish contributor to the book “Insurance Regulation in Europe” and regularly contributes articles, and news items on Irish insurance issues to a number of publications. He is included in the Euromoney guide to the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance lawyers. He is recognised by the Legal 500 as having a superb reputation. The international who’s who of insurance lawyers has ranked him as Ireland’s leading insurance lawyer. James is the National Vice President for Ireland of the Union International des Advocates (International Lawyers’ Association).

Pat Moran

Partner, Risk and Advisory Services
Ernst & Young
Pat Moran, a partner in Ernst & Young’s Risk and Advisory Services practice, leads the Technology & Security Risk Services function for the financial services market. He advises a wide range of clients on all aspects of IT security, IT audit, programme assurance and IT forensic activities. These clients range from leading financial institutions in Ireland to multinational groups. He has also worked in the financial services industry as an IT developer and internal auditor.

Pat is a Computer Science graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor.

Areas of expertise: IT internal audit; Project risk management; IT Forensics; Information security

Mary Fulton

Partner
Deloitte

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'.

David Breden

Director
HSBC Operational Risk Consultancy
David Breden began his banking career in the NatWest branch network after graduation from Oxford with a First Class Honours Degree in Modern Languages. His most recent roles in NatWest were Deputy General Manager Risk in Banco NatWest España where he was responsible for introducing and implementing an Operational Risk Management structure and the supervision of the workout process following sale of the Spanish branch network. Upon leaving NatWest, David worked for a short period as Managing Director of an outsourcing company before joining HSBC Operational Risk Consultancy. Within HSBC Operational Risk Consultancy, David is the architect of OpRisk Modeller, a software tool designed to assist institutions with the identification and assessment of operational risk and the calculation of an operational risk capital charge. He has delivered consultancy projects connected with the development of Basel AMA approaches to operational risk. He has also designed comprehensive programmes designed to identify and assess operational risk, monitor and control that risk through Key Risk Indicator monitoring and Control and Risk Self-Assessment and the modelling of Operational Risks. David has carried out extensive research into the proposed regulatory environment for operational risk and is a frequent speaker at conferences throughout the world on the subject of operational risk.

David Page

Projects Director
Capita Financial Group
David has recently joined Capita Financial Group as Projects Director after 12 years with Barclays PLC in a wide range of roles, including two senior Executive posts as Strategy Implementation Director for IT and Operations and latterly as Chief Operating Officer of the Home Finance Business. David has a significant array of experience in change management and outsourcing having been responsible for the selection and implementation of contracts totalling well over £500m across IT and operations. David is currently responsible for all business change activity, major client take on’s and CFG's infrastructure and IT. David will be a director of Capita Financial Managers (Ireland) and Capita Financial Administrators (Ireland).

Pat Wall

Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers

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.

PJ Henehan

Tax Partner, Financial Services Group
Ernst & Young

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.

Paul Reck

Tax Partner
Deloitte

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.

Enda Faughnan

Tax Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Enda Faughnan is head of Tax Financial Services in PricewaterhouseCoopers in Ireland. He is a member of the Technical Committee of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants in Ireland and is their representative on the Tax Administration Liaison Committee (TALC) and on the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies in Ireland (CCAB-I). Enda is also a member of the Banking and Treasury Group, a Government appointed committee responsible for the promotion and development of financial services in Ireland. He is also a member of the International Financial Services Tax group, which has been set up resolve tax issues arising from the workings of the other Government committees

Enda specialises in providing tax consultancy services to the financial services sector in Ireland and abroad. His clients include domestic and international banks as well as financial services subsidiaries of major multi-national corporations.

He joined Price Waterhouse in 1985 and was made a tax partner in 1988.He was appointed head of Tax Services in Pricewaterhouse in 1995 and appointed head of Tax and Legal Services in PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1998 on the merger with Coopers & Lybrand. He stepped down from this position in July 2003 to concentrate on international financial services client work. Enda was formerly a Higher Grade Tax Inspector based in the Technical Division of the Irish Revenue.

Enda's professional qualifications include a Batchelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Higher Diploma in Education (1st place) and is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. He achieved first place in the world in his final ACCA exams.