Speakers

	Dr Alan Ahearne, Economist, NUI Galway and Member of the Central Bank Commission. An economics lecturer at NUI Galway, Alan is also a Member of the Commission (Board) of the Central Bank of Ireland and is a research fellow at Bruegel. Alan served as Special Adviser to the former Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan from March 2009 until March 2011. Previously, he worked as a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board. Alan holds a Ph.D. in economics from Carnegie Mellon University.
	Kostas Bikos, Director, EMEA Credit Services, Microsoft Kostas has been in Microsoft’s Treasury organisation since 2002 and in the last three years has been leading Credit Services in EMEA, based in Dublin. He holds a degree in Economics and an MSc in Finance. Kostas specialises in facilitating revenue growth while managing credit risk in emerging markets.
	Fergus Condon, Director, Financial Accounting Advisory, Ernst & Young Leading the Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) practice in the Irish firm, Fergus advises the audit committees and boards of directors of a number of publicly listed companies on accounting and financial reporting matters. He has extensive experience on GAAP conversion projects and specialised in advising on accounting for remuneration plans and business combinations. Fergus is a member of the ACCA's Global Corporate Reporting Forum.
	Jonathan Curry, Chief Investment, Liquidity, HSBC Global Asset Management Jonathan is Global CIO for the Liquidity business and has been working in the industry since 1989. Prior to joining HSBC in 2010, Jonathan worked as Head of European Cash Management at Barclays Global Investors. A Board Member and Chair of the Technical Committee of the Institutional Money Market Fund Association, the industry association for AAA rated money market funds, he is also a member of the Bank of England's Money Market Liaison Group.
	Barry Dempsey, Group Treasury Manager, Greencore Group plc With Greencore, the international convenience foods company, since 2007, Barry’s areas of responsibility include all aspects of the management and reporting of the company’s net debt, and related interest rate and foreign exchange rate exposure. Barry began his career with Bank of Ireland Global Markets, joining their Graduate Training Program in 2000. He spent five years in BOI, before joining Citibank. Barry holds an honours degree in Agricultural Science from UCD.
	Dr Donal Donovan, former Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Recently appointed to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, Donal is a journalist and regular TV, radio and media commentator. He published a number of opinion pieces on the IMF/EU bailout in the Irish Times, etc and was a member of the investigation team that produced the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland’s report to the Minister for Finance on the Irish banking crisis in 2010. He is currently adjunct professor at the University of Limerick and a visiting lecturer at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Donal holds a B.A. from TCD and a Ph. D. from the University of British Columbia.
	Brendan Glynn, President, Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers ( Assistant Treasurer, Smurfit Kappa Group plc) Brendan is Assistant Treasurer with Smurfit Kappa Group (a world leader in paper-based packaging). His responsibilities include the management of debt, liquidity, foreign exchange and interest rate exposures. Prior to working with Smurfit Kappa, he worked with Ernst & Young in Dublin and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.
	Swagata Ganguly, Managing Director in Rothschild’s Debt Advisory Team Swagata has over 12 years of experience advising corporates, governments and private equity on over 75 financing transactions involving over €100bn. This has involved advice on bank, bond, credit ratings and derivatives across investment grade, leveraged, structured, property and project finance credits. Swagata has advised UK Government, private equity houses: Blackstone and 3i, infrastructure funds: Canadian Pension Plan, Macquarie, JP Morgan, Ontario Teachers and UBS. Swagata is a qualified chartered accountant and holds a BA in Economics, Cambridge University.
	David Guest, Chairman, Green IFSC Steering Group Also Chairman of the Banking and Treasury Group at the Department of the Taoiseach, David has been involved in the IFSC development since 1991 and was formerly CEO of ABN AMRO international treasury. Previously Country Manager of ABN AMRO Ireland from 2003-2009, he was with Ulster Bank Global Transaction Services until July 2011 and now serves on the boards of Merrill Lynch International Bank and EAA Covered Bond Bank. A former director of the Irish Stock Exchange, he is a council member of the Federation of International Banks in Ireland and holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin and UCD as well as a diploma in Company Direction (Institute of Directors).
	Brian Hayes, TD Minister of State Brian Hayes is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He is currently a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South West constituency and also the Minister of State at the Department of Finance. Brian was born in Dublin. He was educated at Garbally College, Ballinasloe, County Galway; St Patrick's College, Maynooth and Trinity College, Dublin. Formerly a secondary school teacher he was a member of [more ⇓] South Dublin County Council between 1995 and 2003. In December 1995, he was nominated by the Taoiseach, John Bruton, to the 20th Seanad Éireann, where he was appointed Government spokesperson on the Environment. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1997 general election for the Dublin South West constituency. He was immediately appointed Fine Gael spokesperson on Housing, House Prices and Urban Renewal. In a reshuffle of the Fine Gael front bench in June 2000, Brian was promoted as Front Bench spokesperson on Northern Ireland. Between 2001 and 2002 he served as Fine Gael's Front Bench spokesperson on Social and Community Affairs. In 2002 he was elected to Seanad Éireann, where he served as Fine Gael party leader and spokesperson on Defence and Northern Ireland. At the 2007 general election he was elected to the Dáil on the first count in the Dublin South West constituency. He was party spokesperson for Education and Science from 2007–2010. In October 2010, he was appointed as party Deputy spokesperson on Finance with special responsibility for Public Expenditure. In March 2011, Brian Hayes was appointed by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny as Minister of State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for Public Sector Reform and the Office of Public Works. On 28 July 2011 the Government terminated his existing assignment as Minister of State and newly assigned him as Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with special responsibility for Public Service Reform and the Office of Public Works with effect from 29 July 2011. On 19 October 2011 Minister Hayes was assigned additional duties by the Government as Minister of State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for international tax issues and customs reform. This is in addition to his responsibilities for public service reform and the OPW at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
	Lars Hove-Nielsen, Group Treasurer, Grundfos Group Lars has been with Grundfos one of the world's largest pump producers for 10 years. In his previous career he has been with a couple of Danish banks - Danske Bank and Nordea and Danish corporates within agriculture and wind energy.
	Barry Manning, Head of Business Sales, National Irish Bank Barry is responsible for Cash Management, Trade Finance and Invoice Finance sales across Ireland. Barry's previous roles in NIB include Senior Cash Manager, Senior eBanking Manager along with positions in Business Banking, Credit Cards and Asset Finance. He holds a Certificate in International Cash Management (Cert. ICM).
	David Murphy, Business Editor, RTE News Business Editor of RTE where he has worked for almost six years, David joined the national broadcaster from the Irish Independent where he was Deputy Business Editor from 2000. In 2009 he co-authored a number one best-selling book on Ireland’s financial crisis called Banksters. He won Business Journalist of the Year for broadcasting in 2008 and again in 2010.
	Libhin Nic Gabhann, Treasury Director, ICON plc Since joining ICON plc to set up a Treasury function in July 2007, projects Libhin has since completed include rationalising existing global bank relationships, centralising all cash management, implementing new treasury policies and developing current Treasury Infrastructure (creating STP from trade to payments). ICON launched their first revolving credit facility in July 2011 for USD 150M with 5 relationship banks. Libhin commenced her Treasury career in London in 1997 and returned to Ireland in 2002 as Treasury manager for BMS. She has an honours degree in Economics and is an associate member of the ACT.
	Richard Nunan, Director of Operations, DNM Technology. DNM, an Irish owned company, specialisises in delivering Cloud Integration and Business Intelligence solutions to the financial industry. Managing business development operations of the consultancy services division within DNM Technology, Richard has over 15 years' technology experience working as an enterprise architect in both technical and business development roles and has worked across a wide range of heavily regulated sectors including Finance and Pharmaceuticals.
	Richard Raeburn, Chairman, European Association of Corporate Treasurers Nine years a consulting partner with KPMG previously, Richard also worked in the manufacturing industry. Now a non-executive director of two housing associations and a trustee of St Christopher’s Hospice, he retired as chief executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers in December 2008.
	Paul Rellis, Managing Director, Microsoft Ireland Paul Rellis was appointed Managing Director of Microsoft Ireland in December 2007. As MD he is responsible for Microsoft Corporation’s business in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and also represents Microsoft on all strategic policy and communications issues in Ireland. Paul qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers at Waterford Regional Technical College.
	Rasmus Schiønning, Treasury & Cash Management, Nasarius A treasury and cash management professional for more than 12 year, Rasmus is one of the founding partners of the Nasarius group, a North European consultancy specialized in helping corporations optimizing their treasury, cash management, in-house bank/payment factories, and financial value chain. His background is from the oil industry, where he was part of the optimization of Statoil’s financial processes and systems. He is speaker at ACT trainings and conferences and is an ACT Certified International Cash Manager.
	Filipe Simão, Head of Client Advisory, BNP Paribas Filipe has held a wide range of cash management international roles, including product management, marketing and sales. After heading a team with responsibility for some of the largest cash management clients of BNP Paribas, he now leads client advisory and strategic marketing. Simão holds an MBA from Solvay Business School (Brussels) - HEC (Montreal).
	Paul Stapleton, Group Treasurer, ESB Paul Stapleton was appointed ESB Group Treasurer in June 2010. He joined ESB in 1991 and has worked in a range of financial roles throughout ESB Group. He was Financial Controller of ESB Networks Ltd from 2005 to 2010. He holds a Business Degree from the University of Limerick and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
	Peter Storgaard, Head of Global Cash Management, Danske Bank Group Peter joined Danske in 1977. After a few years in the branch network, marketing and HR, he became client officer with responsibility for institutional clients. In 1990, he became Head of Cash Management responsible for developing the department. In 1996, he worked as Head of Scandinavian Corporates & Cash Management in the London branch and in 2001 was appointed Head of Global Cash Management in Copenhagen.
	Aidan Walsh, Partner-FSO Tax, Ernst & Young Aidan has nearly 20 years experience in the taxation of financial services activities in a domestic and international context. He specialises in assisting global groups use Ireland as a location for international activities. Aidan has published and spoken widely on the taxation of financial services in Ireland, tax risk management and other related matters.