ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
2014
Irish Financial Services
Raising the Bar on Compliance,
Culture and Conduct
23rd October 2014
Radisson Blu, Golden Lane, Dublin 8
www.acoi.ie
SPEAKERS
Philip Brennan,
Chairman, ACOI and Managing Director, Raiseaconcern.com
Philip Brennan is Founder and Managing Director of Raiseaconcern.com
(www.raiseaconcern.com), an Irish based firm which advises on and operates
whistleblowing schemes for private sector and public body employers. Philip is
also Chairman of the Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland (ACOI).
Philip was previously Group General Manager, Regulation and Compliance in AIB
Group, a position he retired from in 2011. Between 1995 and 2002 he was Head
of Group Taxation at AIB. He is a former President of the Irish Tax Institute.
Philip holds an MSc in Business Administration from University of Dublin, Trinity
College. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Banking, a Fellow of the Irish Tax
Institute and holds a Professional Diploma in Compliance. He is a Licentiate
Member (LCOI) of ACOI.
SIMON HARRIS TD
Minister of State at the Departments of Finance, Public Expenditure
and Reform and the Department of the Taoiseach with special
responsibility for the Office of Public Works, Public Procurement and
International Banking (including the IFSC).
Simon Harris TD is Minister of State at the Departments of Finance, Public
Expenditure & Reform, and the Department of the Taoiseach. Across this broad
brief he has special responsibility for International Banking (including the Irish
Financial Services Centre), Public Procurement and the Office of Public Works.
First elected to Dáil Éireann at the last election in 2011 he has served on the
Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure & Reform, the Public
Accounts Committee, and was Convenor of the Cross-Party Group on Mental
Health.
A graduate of journalism, Minister Harris became involved in politics through his
advocacy and lobbying work on Autism. Prior to his election to the Dáil, he
served as a Councillor in his native country of Wicklow.
SPEAKERS
ANTHONY SMITH-MEYER
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Business Compliance and Professor of
International Management and Business, Miami University – European
Campus. Former Group Head of Compliance Fortis Bank and Member of
the Executive Committee of Compliance & Oversight of Operational
Control BNP Paribas Group
Anthony Smith-Meyer is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of a new professional
Journal of Business Compliance. He is a Financial Industry executive and a
specialist in governance, company direction, compliance oversight and
corporate culture, with hands on client and product experience. An adjunct
Professor of international business and management, and also a public speaker
and workshop facilitator on governance and compliance and organisational
behaviour topics.
ANN NOLAN
Second Secretary General, Department of Finance with responsibility for
the Financial
Ann Nolan is Second Secretary General at the Department of Finance, Ireland
with responsibility as deputy Head of Department. Ms Nolan is currently Head of
the Financial Services Directorate with responsibility for policy and legislation in
the banking and financial services areas. This also includes responsibility for
financial stability/risk management and International Financial Institutions.
Ann has worked in the Department of Finance for 29 years and has extensive
experience of policy formulation and the development of strategy in the areas of
taxation, expenditure control, banking and financial services. Ann is currently a
member of the Pensions Authority and is on the Board of the recently formed
State development bank, the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI).
She has previously served on the Boards of the State Claims Agency, the Legal
Aid Board and the ACC Bank.
MELANIE BLAKE
Vice Chairman, ACOI and Global Risk & Compliance Director, Walkers
Melanie Blake is Global Risk & Compliance Director at Walkers and heads up its
Regulatory Compliance Practice. Walkers is an international law firm focused on
corporate and international finance law. Prior to joining Walkers, Melanie worked
for over ten years in compliance roles in financial services including the life,
pensions, banking and asset management sectors.
Melanie is Vice Chair of the ACOI and has been a member of the Board since
2011. She was a member of the Education Committee for a number of years,
author of PDC 1 from 2008 to 2013 and is Chair of the Ethics Committee.
Melanie is a LCOI, a Chartered Banker, holds a MBA specialising in Regulation &
Compliance and a LLB.
SPEAKERS
DR MICHAEL DOWLING
Programme Director of the MSC in Finance, DCU Business School
Dr Michael Dowling is the Programme Director of the MSc in Finance and
Lecturer in Finance in DCU Business School. He is an active researcher in
behavioural
corporate
finance,
investor
psychology,
and
financing
in
entrepreneurship, and also delivers modules in various fields of finance at
undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive education levels.
His PhD from Trinity College Dublin, was awarded in 2007, it investigated the
influence of emotion and mood on investor decision-making, using
environmental factors as a proxy for emotion variation. A particular interest of the
research was whether the impact of emotions on investor decision-making was
influenced by the level of uncertainty faced by the particular class of investor.
Current research continues this investor psychology theme, primarily testing
psychological influences in financial asset pricing. New avenues of interest also
include behavioural corporate finance (for example, the psychological factors
that influence firm risky financing decisions, including most recently: gender, age,
and social status), and financing in entrepreneurship (influence of financing on
innovation capacity in SMEs, financing structures and growth trajectories,
financing and culture).
He is also actively involved in the academic community having been appointed
as Associate Editor for three leading international finance journals: International
Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Finance,
and Research in International Business and Finance.
His prior teaching experience includes Trinity College Dublin, University of Essex,
University of Central Lancashire, Boston University, and EBS Universitat
(Germany). Current taught modules include: International Finance on the final
year of undergraduate business studies; Corporate Financial Management and
International Financial Management on the Graduate Certificate in Corporate
Treasury; Dissertation supervision on the Masters in Finance; Investment
Analysis, Recent Research Topics in Finance, and Risk and Capital
Management, on the Masters in Finance; and PhD supervision.
SPEAKERS
CLIVE KELLY
General Manager and Executive Director Partner Re Insurance
Clive Kelly is General Manager and Executive Director of Partner Re Ireland
Insurance Ltd. a subsidiary of Partner Reinsurance. He has a business degree
from the University of Dublin and is a Chartered Insurer.
Clive has worked in the insurance sector for over twenty five 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.
Clive teaches on a number of programmes for the School of Professional Finance
(IOB).; Executive Masters in Risk Management; MSC in Compliance ; Graduate
Diploma In Financial Services and the undergraduate degree in Financial Services
lecturing on a number of topics including, Compliance, Risk Management,
Reinsurance, Ethics, Regulation etc.
He has also delivered executive programmes for the Institute of Banking on
various topics incl. Enterprise Risk Management, and Solvency II.
Clive has written and contributed on text books on the topics of Insurance,
Compliance, Risk Management and Consumer Credit. Clive was involved as
author, editor and lecturer from the beginning of the ACOI PDC qualification. He
speaks widely both nationally and internationally on a wide variety of topics and
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.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD
Columnist Irish Examiner
Michael Clifford is the Special Correspondent with the Irish Examiner. He has
worked in journalism for twenty years, covering politics, business, legal and
crime matters and is a regular contributor on radio and TV programmes. He is
the author of two novels and a number of non-fiction books. Most recently, he
was the foremost reporter in breaking and following the stories associated with
the Garda Whistleblowers.
AGENDA
8:00am
Registration & Networking
8:45am - 13:15pm
Conference
13:15pm - 14:30pm
Networking Lunch
FEES
Members €150 Non-Members €250
Non Members please call 01 669 8507 to book your place.
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