Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
I am an experienced and well-networked finance and investment professional with a strong track record in the management consulting and asset management industries over the past 30 years. I am skilled in risk management, capital allocation, structured finance, risk transfer, transaction negotiations, financial services regulatory and balance sheet management, insurance, pension funds, investment strategies, capital markets, ALM, and actuarial science. I have spent twelve years in module design and in lecturing post-graduates on asset management and quantitative topics in three Dublin universities. I have considerable boardroom experience, working as an advisor and risk manager to the boards of large asset owners, acting as a director to a Guernsey ICC and its cells, and formerly chairing a historic Dublin tennis club. Outside my principal employment, I am a keen tennis player and an amateur historian, specialising in diverse topics such as household structure and inheritance in south-western Ireland, early tennis in Dublin, the Irish parliament of 1691-1800 and the former Sallins-Tullow railway line.
I lead the Strategic Risk Management (SRM) group, a network of colleagues specialising in assisting Mercer's larger and more sophisticated clients around Europe in navigating areas such as capital allocation, risk management and governance, efficient financing, risk transfer and balance sheet management. Previously I led the Strategic Solutions Group in Ireland's Wealth business, a team of 15-20 colleagues focussed on advising clients on similar themes. From 2009 to 2016, I was part of Mercer's Financial Strategy Group (FSG), a team of 100-150 colleagues that specialised in advising Mercer's largest clients in the pensions and insurance sectors on investment, risk management and risk financing. Key areas of focus for me have been in assisting financial institution clients manage their balance sheet risks in the context of the Basel & Solvency standards, helping corporate and trustee clients design and implement asset backed funding arrangements, the financing of pensions through captive insurance and management of Euro-denominated liabilities through market instruments and insurance technology.
Mercer ICC is an incorporated cell company, established to facilitate the transfer of longevity risk from UK pension schemes directly to the reinsurance market.
Equity Research module coordination and delivery on MSc in Investment and Treasury. Topics competitive strategy, financial analysis and forecasting, valuation.
Stratford LTC is a thriving community tennis club located in Grosvenor Square in Rathmines, one of just a small handful of clubs in Dublin to maintain grass courts. I was previously its Honorary Secretary (April 2016-April 2017) and remain its Company Secretary.
Course designer and leader on two modules in Quantitative Methods for risk management given to the Executive Masters in Risk Management, covering topics ranging from Probability & Statistics, Portfolio Mathematics, Measures of Risk, Factor Risk Models, Monte Carlo Modelling, Stochastic Calculus, Derivatives Calculus and Option Pricing Models.