DR MARGARET CULLEN (PROGRAMME DIRECTOR) Subject Area: Bank Governance

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1 DR MARGARET CULLEN (PROGRAMME DIRECTOR) Subject Area: Bank Governance Dr. Margaret Cullen is a specialist in the areas of corporate and investment fund governance. Margaret holds a BA in Economics from University College Dublin, an MSc in Investment and Treasury from Dublin City University and a PhD in corporate governance from University College Dublin. Her doctoral research explored the role and effectiveness of boards of directors in investment fund governance. Prior to completing her doctoral research, Margaret worked for 12 years in the financial services industry. She has held senior positions at ABN AMRO International Financial Services Company, the Central Bank, JP Morgan Bank Ireland plc. And RBC Dexia Investor Services Ireland Limited where she gained significant experience in the areas of treasury management, investment fund regulation, compliance and risk management. Dr. Cullen lectures on the Professional Diploma in Corporate Governance for the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance in the areas of executive remuneration and behavioural aspects of boards. She also lectures on corporate governance and ethics for the Institute of Banking on the MSc in Risk Management and the Graduate Diploma in Financial Services and Graduate Diploma in Compliance. Margaret is Programme Director for the Institute s Certified Investment Fund Director Programme. In 2009 she carried out independent research on behalf of the Irish Stock Exchange and the Irish Association of Investment Managers, on compliance by Irish listed companies with the Combined Code (now the UK Corporate Governance Code). The recommendations contained in the final report led to the publication by the Irish Stock Exchange of the Irish Corporate Governance Annex as an accompaniment to their Listing Rules. She represented the Centre for Corporate Governance on a Consultative Committee that prepared a Code of Best Practice for Governance Assessment in Ireland (Swift 3000) and was part of the committee s editorial team. Margaret is a former director of the Corporate Governance Association of Ireland and the Qualifications and Quality Authority of Ireland. She is a nonexecutive director of The Progressive Building Society and chairs its remuneration committee. PROFESSOR EAMONN WALSH Subject Area: Analysing Bank Financial Statements Eamonn is PwC Professor of Accounting at UCD. He has served as Dean of the Smurfit School of Business and Chairman of the Accounting Department. His primary research, teaching and consulting interests are in the areas of financial analysis, equity valuation and US securities markets. A co-author of three books, his research has been published in Accounting Organisations and Society, the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and the Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance. He was the founding editor of European Accounting and served as associate editor of the Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance. Prior to joining UCD, he held faculty positions at the London School of Economics and New York University. Visiting appointments have included UC Berkeley and Peking University. A consultant to a number of leading European, US and Asian corporations, he has also completed assignments with governmental organisations, the International Monetary Fund and the

2 United Nations. He was the inaugural recipient of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Excellence in Education Award and has been a presenter at the World Economic Forum. MR KEVIN MCCONNELL Subject Area: Bank Strategy Kevin, a Chartered Financial Analyst, has more than 15 years of experience in the investment industry, specialising in the banking and insurance sectors. For the past five years, he has been an external strategic advisor to a number of banks and to a range of international debt and equity investors in the sector. He has worked on both the buy and sell side of the capital markets. Kevin is a senior lecturer on the Masters in Finance programme, Trinity College Dublin, and delivers the Institute of Banking s Professional Certificate in Complex Financial Instruments in International Financial Services. He also serves as the examiner for the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) accreditation for FPSB Ireland. Kevin is a principal with K3 Consulting and Gem Strategic, which specialise in executive-level strategic consulting in the financial services arena. MS OONAGH CARROLL Subject Area: Capital and Credit Oonagh Carroll is Director of Regulatory Reporting and Operations at Bank of Ireland. Prior to joining Bank of Ireland, Oonagh worked in PwC as a Director in the PwC Banking Team, leading a specialist team providing credit risk advice and services to banks and other clients. Oonagh holds a BA in Accounting & Finance from Dublin City University, an MSc in Risk Management from University College Dublin and is a Chartered Accountant. Prior to joining PwC Oonagh worked with the Ulster Bank Group for 13 years. Oonagh was Head of Strategic Credit Analysis within Credit Risk function with key focus areas such as loss provision reporting and forecasting, development and provision of credit management information, validation of credit risk capital, credit capital forecasting, credit quality assurance and Basel wholesale credit models. She also worked in Retail Banking ROI and in Lombard Ireland, in business information and analysis and finance roles. Oonagh trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and was an audit manager there. Oonagh delivers the Credit Risk module on the Institute of Banking s Executive Masters in Risk Management. MR MICHAEL FEENEY Subject Area: Credit Michael s professional career spans both banking and public service. Michael joined the Banking Supervision team of the Financial Regulator in January 2009 to lead the Credit team. He managed the Credit section of the Financial Measures Project in Michael held a number of senior management positions at Ulster Bank, including Head of Credit and Regional General Manager of the Retail Bank in the Republic of Ireland. He has also completed project work for the International Monitory Fund. Michael is a Fellow of the Institute of Banking, holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. Michael was appointed Chief Executive of the Institute of Banking in December 2011.

3 MS MÁIRÉAD DEVINE Subject Area: Bank Regulation Máiréad Devine is responsible for Regulatory Risk Strategy for Bank of Ireland Group Regulatory Compliance and Risk. She was formerly the Head of Risk, Governance and Accounting Policy in the Central Bank of Ireland. In this role Máiréad had responsibility for the regulatory risk framework, PRISM, and the development of policy in corporate governance, risk management, accounting and auditing. Máiréad was previously a Director in the PwC Regulatory Advisory Services team where she specialised in the provision of prudential, governance, risk management and compliance services across the financial services spectrum. Máiréad previously worked as a prudential specialist with PwC UK in the Financial Services Regulatory Practice. Prior to that she was a Manager in the Regulatory Policy Division at the Bank of England, where she represented the Bank in negotiating aspects of Basel II (notably in the areas of disclosure, aspects of credit risk and accounting policy). She started her career as an Economist in the Economic Analysis and Research Department of the Central Bank of Ireland. MR GERRY ROSEINGRAVE Subject Area: Liquidity Management Gerry Roseingrave is an experienced Financial Markets banker. His career in Financial Markets started in the late 1970 s with Bank of Ireland and concluded in 2010 having spent over 20 years with ABN AMRO Group. In 2010 he joined the Central Bank of Ireland as a senior Treasury Analyst. In his career at Bank of Ireland he worked in Dublin and New York in the Financial Markets area responsible for the management of various trading activities. In his career at ABN AMRO, which spanned over 20 years, he held senior positions in Amsterdam and Dublin which included Regional Head of Trading CEEMEA, Global Head of Market Risk for Emerging Markets, Head of ALM Central and Eastern Europe and Country Executive Ireland. Finally he held the position of Treasurer Ulster Bank , a position to which he had been seconded to. After joining the Central Bank of Ireland in 2010 he was appointed to lead the Treasury Team within Banking Supervision Division. This team was responsible for the regulation of the Treasury operations of licensed banks with a particularly strong emphasis on the domestic credit institutions. His team was responsible for managing and leading the liquidity element of the Financial Measures Programme 2011 and reporting thereafter to the Troika on liquidity developments at each scheduled quarterly mission visit. Since the commencement of the Single Supervisory Mechanism in November 2014 a substantial organisational change took place in the Banking Supervision Division of the Central Bank of Ireland. He was then assigned to the Inspections Division within Banking Supervision where he leads a Treasury related inspections team. He has extensive expertise in crisis situations most particularly from an Asset and Liability perspective. In his position as Regional Head of Trading CEEMEA in ABN AMRO, he helped to manage the Treasury operations of ABN AMRO Prague and Moscow during their country s crises in 1997 and 1998 respectively.

4 MR CLIVE KELLY Subject Area: Operational Risk, ERM Clive Kelly is General Manager and Executive Director of Partner Re Insurance Ireland Ltd, a subsidiary of Partner Reinsurance. He holds a business degree from the University of Dublin and is a Chartered Insurer. Clive has worked in the insurance sector for over 25 years, having held many executive roles including Head of Reinsurance, Head of Compliance and Head of Risk Management. Prior to joining Partner Re he was Chief Risk Officer of Zurich Insurance plc., the largest single regulated insurance undertaking in Europe and the largest regulated entity in the state, accounting for some 60% of the entire Irish insurance market. Clive teaches on a number of graduate and post graduate programmes including MSc in compliance/graduate Diploma in Compliance as well as the Graduate Diploma in Financial Services and the Bachelor of Financial Services. He has delivered executive programmes for the Institute of Banking on Enterprise Risk Management and Solvency II as well as teaching on the Certified Bank Director Programme. Clive is a speaker at numerous conferences nationally and in Europe. He has written and contributed to text books on the topics of insurance, compliance, risk management and consumer credit. He has published a number of articles on risk management for industry journals such as Banking Ireland and has written in the national press on the topic of compliance. DR PETER OSBORNE Subject Area: Company Law Peter has undergraduate degrees in a number of disciplines including Law and holds a doctorate in Law (1997). He is a solicitor qualified to practise in Ireland and in Northern Ireland and lectured and examined in Law in The Queen s University of Belfast from 1991 to 1997 during which time he also researched and wrote extensively on legal topics. Peter has practised as a full-time consultant with McCann FitzGerald since Peter has a legal advisory practice. He has particular expertise in reasoning and legal problem-solving, legal risk assessment and management, statutory and other legal drafting and in advising in legal and regulatory issues in complex projects and transactions. These have included many substantial national and private infrastructure projects and legal and regulatory compliance initiatives in the financial services, State and corporate sectors. Peter advises on banking and financial services licensing and regulatory compliance and generally in administrative, banking and finance, corporate and commercial law and corporate governance. Peter frequently assists clients in legal risk assessment and management and in formulating legal responses to crisis situations, engagements that are, by their nature, sensitive and confidential. He also drafts legislation for a number of State clients. Peter combines extensive legal and regulatory knowledge and experience with a keen appreciation of the commercial and policy-related context. Peter has an advisory input into a large proportion of the transactions and regulatory issues in which McCann FitzGerald is engaged. Peter also manages McCann FitzGerald s research and know-how functions and the firm s team of professional support lawyers.

5 PROFESSOR BRIAN O KELLY Subject Area: Market, Liquidity Risk, IRRBB Professor Brian O Kelly is Adjunct Professor of Finance at Dublin City University and Programme Director of its MSc in Investment, Treasury and Banking. He holds engineering and MBA degrees from UCD, and an MSc in Investment and Treasury and PhD degrees from DCU. His PhD thesis was on the valuation of Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDO). Brian has worked in the financial markets for over twenty years. His early experience was of commodity price hedging for ESB. Later, he worked in corporate banking and risk management at AIB Capital Markets and with QED Equity. He has undertaken consulting assignments with the Central Bank of Ireland, the Department of Finance, Wells Fargo Bank International and De Nederlandsche Bank. Brian delivers the Fixed Income and Financial Engineering modules on the Institute of Banking s Executive Masters in Risk Management and lectures in Derivatives, Banking and Fixed Income in Dublin City University. He has lectured on the MSc in Quantitative Finance and the MBA in University College Dublin, as well as the MSc in Financial Engineering in NUI Maynooth. He has delivered executive programmes for the Institute of Banking on credit risk, market risk and Basel III. Professor O Kelly is a speaker at numerous conferences, and has also written articles on securitisation, accounting, banking and regulation for industry journals such as Banking Ireland and Accountancy Ireland, and academic journals such as Journal of International Money and Finance and World Economy. MR MARTIN STEWART Subject Area: Prudential Regulation Martin is the Director of Banks, Building Societies and Credit Unions at the Bank of England s Prudential Regulation Authority. He joined the regulator in 2010 from the IFG Group where he was Managing Director of their expatriate financial advisory, tax advisory and asset management businesses operating in the UK, Europe and Australia. For PA Consulting Group and in his own business, he has worked as an advisor to banks, building societies and insurance companies in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Across 11 years he held a series of roles for Yorkshire Building Society, including 6 years as a member of their Group Board. Martin has a MEng in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London. MS LESLEY JONES Subject Area: Credit Lesley has spent over 35 years in financial services. The first part of her career was as a relationship manager with Citigroup in London, where she had responsibility for customers across a variety of industries, including construction, shipping project finance and energy. In 1998, Lesley moved into the risk management division at Citi where she was responsible for the bank s credit exposure to the telecoms, chemicals and pharmaceuticals industries. In 2007, Lesley was appointed Global Head of Portfolio Management at Citi, overseeing a $500bn credit portfolio with a global staff of 250 risk professionals. In summer 2008, Lesley left Citi to join Royal Bank of Scotland Group as Group Chief

6 Credit Officer. There she spearheaded a programme of change and implemented a comprehensive rewrite of the bank s credit policies, processes and risk appetite framework. Lesley retired from executive life in 2013 and currently holds non executive directorships with Close Brothers Group, N Brown Group Plc and Danske Bank s subsidiary, Northern Bank Limited, in Belfast. MR RICHARD PIKE Subject Area: Operational Risk and ERM Richard has extensive experience of working with financial institutions and technology companies throughout the world, assisting companies in managing enterprise risk more efficiently while addressing local regulatory guidelines and standards. He is currently an Independent Non Executive Director at PermanentTSB Bank plc., JP Morgan Fund Administration Services (Ireland) Limited and JP Morgan Hedge Fund Services (Ireland) Limited. He has previously worked in various senior banking, insurance, credit and market risk roles at Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, ABN AMRO, Bain, COMIT Gruppe and Quay Financial Software. He has analysed, designed and managed the development of core treasury and enterprise risk management systems for large financial institutions, including UBS, Citibank, Schroders and Unicredito. In 2009, Richard was recognised as a Top 50 Face of Operational Risk by Op Risk & Compliance magazine and was a contributing author to two books on risk management. He is also a board member of the Governance, Risk and Compliance Technology Centre which focuses on research in the area of financial services governance, risk and compliance. Richard has also received the designation of Certified Bank Director by the Institute of Banking. MR TREVOR JONES Subject Area: Conduct Risk Trevor Jones has over 30 years of experience in governance, finance, audit, risk and compliance and is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA). Formerly Director of Governance and Control for Barclays, Western Europe Retail & Business Banking, Mr. Jones has successfully led and delivered major regulatory change programmes for large corporates and businesses. During his time at Barclays, Mr. Jones built a world class compliance function and created a centre for excellence for all UK Compliance matters and he was responsible for compliance issues across Retail Banking and Business Banking business. He also led through change required group wide regarding MiFiD implementation. Mr Jones also spent over 20 years working at Lloyds Bank. Mr. Jones is an expert in advising clients on their regulatory risk control frameworks, including how to implement culture change, achieve best-practice corporate governance, and implement continuous conduct risk oversight. Mr Jones is a lecturer in governance, compliance and regulatory risk and has previously lectured in finance.