Financial Services Conference 2022 (ROI) On-Demand

Audrey O’Mahony - Managing Director, Head of Talent & Organisation, Strategy and Consulting, Accenture
Audrey O’Mahony is a Managing Director who leads the Talent and Organisation practice at Accenture in Ireland, where she has worked for over 15 years.　 Audrey has spent most of her career working with clients on large scale workforce transformation programmes, particularly in the financial services sector.　 She has also supported a range of Accenture clients on their talent management agendas, from learning and rapid re-skilling, to talent strategy and employee proposition, future workforce planning and culture change.

Alan Dunne - Founder and CEO of Archive Capital
Alan is the Founder and CEO of Archive Capital, a boutique multi-asset and investment research focused on alternative investment strategies.　 He started his career as a foreign exchange analyst and trader, working for Bank of America in London, Hong Kong, and Singapore and for BNP Paribas in emerging markets before returning to Dublin to join Allied Irish Capital Management.　 He is a CFA Charter holder and holds an MSc Investment Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, an MBA from Smurfit Business School, and a BA (Mod) in Economics from Trinity College Dublin.

Joe Heneghan - CEO Europe for Revolut
Joe Heneghan is CEO Europe for Revolut, the global financial super-app. Revolut Europe has more than 12m retail and business customers - including more than 1.5m customers in Ireland. Meanwhile Revolut Bank, which Joe leads, now offers banking services to consumers in 28 EEA markets. Joe is a member of the European Central Bank’s European Retail Payments Board, as well as being a board member of Financial Services Ireland. He has 25 years experience in financial services: prior to joining Revolut in 2019, he held senior roles at Ulster Bank, having previously worked at First Active and Permanent TSB. Revolut was founded in 2015 and now has more than 18m customers globally. It employs 2,700 people from over 100 nationalities on its mission to reinvent how the world does money.

Billy O’Connell - Managing Director, Financial Services Lead at Accenture Ireland
Billy is Managing Director, Financial Services Lead at Accenture Ireland and is a member of the Accenture Ireland Leadership Team.　 He graduated from MSISS in Trinity College in 1994 and joined Accenture in the UK in 1994, working in the UK and US before joining the UKI Financial Services practice and returning to work in Ireland in 1997.　 Since then, he has worked predominantly with Irish banks to lead large-scale transformation programmes and to define, plan and manage complex change challenges to meet strategic business objectives.

Aisling McCaffrey - Associate Director, FS Advisory, Grant Thornton
Aisling McCaffrey is a Chartered Accountant and currently works as an Associate Director with the Sustainability team in the Financial Services Advisory department of Grant Thornton. She has over 9 years' experience in the Financial Services sector working with key clients on a range of projects covering business strategy, operations, risk management and sustainability. Aisling has a keen interest in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a particular focus on gender equality, quality education and climate action. Aisling is the co-chair of 100 Women in Finance Next Gen committee and a workstream lead of the FinBiz2030 Irish Taskforce.

Deirdre Timmons – Director, PwC
A Director in PwC, Deirdre is an experienced senior finance and investment professional with extensive knowledge and passion for sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues, backed by two Masters qualifications in Investment and Treasury and Sustainable Energy Finance. She is an experienced industry collaborator on policy and regulation in the sustainability and ESG space.

Ken O’Sullivan - Deputy Chief Executive of IOB.
Ken is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, Fellow of IOB and completed his accounting training with PwC. He graduated from University College Cork with a BComm and from University College Dublin with an MBS.　 He is an Assistant Professor at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. Ken is the Director of Risk Management Education at IOB where he has executive responsibility for the academic programmes on the Professional Educational Framework and the Risk Management Education portfolio.

Ian Nelson – Head of Financial Services & Regulatory – KPMG Ireland
Ian has over 20 years’ experience in providing regulatory, risk management and audit services to all parts of the Financial Services markets and is banking and regulatory specialist. 　Ian’s banking experience includes a secondment with the Irish Central Bank where he was the Head Financial Measures Programme working closely with the Irish authorities and international partners in the ECB, IMF and European Commission.

Ian also works directly with a number of the new entrants into the Irish Financial Services sector such as Fin-Techs and is a FPAI Council Member.　

Pat O’Neill – Chartered Accountants Ireland
Pat is the President of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and has served as a Council member since 2014. A previous Chairman of the Institute’s Audit, Risk and Finance Board, Pat holds a Bachelor of Business Studies Degree (Hons) from the University of Limerick and is a former Chairman of the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants. Co-chair of EY’s Non Executive Director Forum which brings NEDs together to network and listen to speakers covering topics of concern to their roles on Boards and Audit Committees.

Carol Lawton -　 Head of Financial Crime, AIB
Carol Lawton is Head of Financial Crime in AIB, previously Head of First Line Anti Money Laundering in AIB. Prior to that, Carol was Head of Channel Optimisation, with responsibility for driving both staff and customer adoption of AIB’s digital and direct channel capabilities. In this role, Carol placed significant focus on digital education, and developed a comprehensive staff education programme within AIB.　 Carol holds the IOB Certificate, a BSc (Management) from Trinity College, Dublin and the Professional Diploma in Financial Advice from University College, Dublin. She is also a certified Agile ScrumMaster.

John Cotter - Professor in Finance and the Chair in Quantitative Finance at University College Dublin.
John is a Research Fellow at the UCLA Ziman Research Center for Real Estate. John has previously had visiting positions at UCLA, London School of Economics, UBC and ESSEC Business School. He has taught extensively on undergraduate, graduate and executive programmes. John has been awarded a UCD Faculty of Commerce Outstanding Educator Teaching Award. John is the founding Director of the Centre for Financial Markets at University College Dublin. He is the Director of the Financial Mathematics Computation Research Cluster (FMC2) a multi-university cross-discipline research body in Finance. John is Associate Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money and the European Journal of Finance.　

Martina Kelly – Director of Funds at IOB
Martina Kelly is Director of Funds at IOB having joined the IoB in January 2020. Prior to that she was Head of Markets Policy Division within the Central Bank of Ireland with responsibility for the formulation of policy in relation to investment funds, investment firms, markets and market infrastructure.　 Martina represented the Central Bank at the ESMA Investment Management Standing Committee from its inception until she left the Central Bank in 2019. She also participated in various European Council Working Groups including those related to AIFMD and UCITS and was the Central Bank representative at the Irish IFSC Funds Working Group.　 Martina is a non-executive director of Northern Trust Fiduciary Services (Ireland) Limited.

Anthony Wolf – Sia Partners
In 2017, Anthony launched the first Sia Partners Bank Digital Benchmark with the goal of developing their international expertise on digital maturity around the world using tool testing, data scraping and data science. This expertise helped several major banks to improve their digital offering including Customer Journey, Open Banking, Payment services, Credits allowance, Beyond Banking but also fraud detection. Sia Partners became a reference in digital strategy and then Anthony also developed his expertise by improving digital services for SME, for investment tools & Insurance services.  More recently, he also actively worked on the Sustainable transition for several mayor first movers.  On a group base, Anthony is leading the international Consumer Banking Team.