Minister D’Arcy announces new members of the IFS2020 Industry Advisory Committee

Minister of State for Financial Services and Insurance, Michael D’Arcy TD, today (Wednesday) announced the new members of the IFS2020 Industry Advisory Committee (IAC). IFS2020 is the Government’s Strategy to develop Ireland’s international financial services (IFS) sector which was launched in March 2015. The new members will be in place for the remainder of the period of IFS2020.

Membership of the Committee is representative of the broad spectrum of financial services subsectors in Ireland including banking, funds, asset management, payments, aviation finance, insurance and FinTech, with additional representation from legal and accountancy firms. The Secretariat to the IAC will be provided by Kevin Thompson, CEO of Insurance Ireland.

The incoming IAC membership is as follows:

• Olwyn Alexander (PwC)
• Victoria Brown (Aberdeen Standard Investments)
• Richard Bryce (Rockall Technology)
• Gary Conroy (TransferMate)
• Joe Duffy (BNY Mellon)
• Aidan Holton (SCOR Re)
• Derek Kehoe (BNP Paribas)
• Declan Lynch (Elavon)
• Ruth McCarthy (Fexco Corporate Payments)
• Barrie O’Connell (KPMG)
• Teresa O’Flynn (Blackrock)
• Roy Parker (McCann Fitzgerald)
• David Swan (SMBC Aviation Capital)
• Niamh Sweeney (Facebook)
• Zdenek Turek (Citigroup)
• Tadhg Young (State Street)
• Deirdre O’Connor (International Member)

Strategic Advisory Group

In addition, Minister D’Arcy has established a Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) to assist with the development of a new Strategy for international financial services to succeed IFS2020. This Group is working on proposals to assist in the development of the overall direction of the new Strategy which will be considered at the IFS2020 Q3 Joint Committee. It is envisaged that this will be followed by further consultations with stakeholders and a public consultation process with a view to launching the new Strategy for Ireland’s international financial services sector in 2019.

The members of the Group are as follows:

• Minister Michael D’Arcy (Chair)
• Brian Daly (KPMG)
• Kieran Donoghue (IDA Ireland)
• Joe Duffy (BNY Mellon)
• Rowena Dwyer (Enterprise Ireland)
• Olivia Hayden (PwC)
• David Hourihan (SDCL)
• Michael Jackson (Matheson)
• Paul Ryan (Department of Finance)
• Mai Santamaria (Department of Finance)
• Carl Tannenbaum (Northern Trust)

ENDS