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You are very welcome to the inaugural Ireland Day at the New York Stock Exchange.

The Irish economy has been through a turbulent few years. Indeed there is still a challenging fewyears ahead. The future depends on the economy trading its way out of its current difficulties.

But there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful. Over the past two decades, a thriving indigenousentrepreneurial culture has emerged. Moreover, Ireland is still an attractive destination forforeign direct investment.

The aim of Ireland Day is to promote greater economic and trade ties between Ireland and one ofits most important partners, the US.

The summit will look at ways of enhancing linkages between both countries in key sectors suchas energy, life sciences, technology and financial services.

Perhaps just as importantly a series of business leaders from both countries will address themost effective way of restoring Ireland’s reputation among international investors in light ofrecent events.

The event also marks the launch of the Irish America Business Association (IABA). The aim ofIABA is to forge greater business relationships between Ireland and the US. The association has atop class advisory board (please see www.iabassoc.com) and will create a unique access basedplatform on a coast to coast basis.

I want to take this opportunity to thank Duncan Niederauer and his colleagues at NYSE Euronextfor their vision and partnership.

In addition I would like to sincerely thank all of our partners and patrons led by InnovationIreland, Invest Northern Ireland, The American Ireland Fund and the American Chamber ofCommerce Ireland for their outstanding support for this unique event.

With a new Government and leadership brings hope and in today’s gathering of the best inbusiness minds, begins a new phase in Ireland Inc.

I hope you enjoy the day.

Yours sincerely,

Ian Hyland

President/CEO & PublisherBusiness & Finance Media GroupFounder IABA

Introduction


Ireland Day Advisory Group

Dennis Agnew ........................................................................ByrneWallace

Aidan Browne ............................................................Sullivan & Worcester

Terry Clune ..............................................................................Taxback.com

Paul Connolly ..............................................Connolly Corporate Finance

Paddy Cosgrave..............................................................................Founders

David Cronin......................................University of Limerick Foundation

Pat English ....................................................Matheson Ormsby Prentice

Brendan Farrell ........................................................................................XSP

Myra Garrett ................................................................................William Fry

Shaun Kelly............................................................................................KPMG

Kieran McLoughlin........................................The American Ireland Fund

Ciaran McNamara ..........................................................Signature Capital

Angus Miller ........................................................................Morgan Stanley

Tim O'Connor ............................Clinton Institute for American Studies

Jim O'Hara ..........................................................Formerly of Intel Ireland

Barry O'Leary..............................................................................IDA Ireland

Joanne Richardson ............American Chamber of Commerce Ireland

Julian Yarr ............................................................................A&L Goodbody


Programme8.15am – 10.00am - Session 1 – Reinventing Ireland Inc

• Reviewing the reputational damage done in light of recent events • Presenting a roadmap to recovery• Looking at Ireland’s relationship with the EU• Putting in place a national communications strategy

10.00am – 10.30am – Networking Break

10.30am – 11.30am – Session 2 - Energy/Alternative Energy

• Developing Ireland’s natural resource potential• Developing Ireland’s renewable energy infrastructure• Investment in the energy sector• Creating a proper regulatory framework

11.30am - 12.30pm – Session 3 - Life Sciences

• Ireland as an innovation hub for Life Sciences • What support is needed to develop the sector • Developing a funding model for the Life Sciences Sector • Irish innovators in Life Sciences

12.30pm – 2.00pm – Luncheon - Invest Northern Ireland’s success as an internationalbusiness location

Speakers:Don Henderson, CTO, NYSE Technologies Brian Conlon, CEO, First Derivatives plc Speaker Christine Quinn, New York City Council

2.00pm - 3.00pm – Session 4 - Financial Services

• What role will the centres like the IFSC play in the future• Recent regulatory reforms following the financial crisis• How is the banking system likely to evolve in the future• The role for IPOs, venture capital and other forms of alternative investment in the Irish recovery

3.00pm - 4.00pm – Session 5 - Education/R&D/Technology/Commercialisation

• Becoming a global player - How to create an Irish Google/Facebook/Twitter• The link between Education/R&D and commercial success• The role of venture capital in technological innovation• Making innovation, R&D a crucial component of every Irish company’s future strategy

4.00pm – 5.00pm – Closing Reception - Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York


ParticipantsSession 1 – Reinventing Ireland Inc

Moderator: David Lynch, Senior Writer, Bloomberg NewsDavid J. Lynch, 51, is a senior writer with Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C.,focusing on the intersection of politics and economics. He is the author of "When TheLuck Of The Irish Ran Out: The World's Most Resilient Country and Its Struggle To RiseAgain" (Palgrave Macmillan), an account of modern Ireland's journey from rags toriches and halfway back again.

Previously, he covered the global economy for USA TODAY, where he was the founding bureau chiefin both London and Beijing. He covered the wars in Kosovo and Iraq, the latter as an embeddedreporter with the U.S. Marines, and was the paper’s first recipient of a Nieman fellowship at HarvardUniversity. He has reported from more than 50 countries.

Lynch has a master’s degree in international relations from Yale University and a B.A. in governmentfrom Wesleyan University in Middletown, Ct. He lives in northern Virginia with his wife Kathleen andtheir three sons.

Liam Casey, CEO PCH InternationalLiam Casey is the founder and CEO of PCH International. PCH creates, develops anddelivers the world’s best technology products for the world’s best brands.

Liam identified the enormous potential and opportunities for growth in China in themid-1990s, and he founded PCH in Cork, Ireland in 1996. The company employs 1,200people in China, Ireland, UK, US, and South Africa.

Liam is widely recognized as a thought leader on international trade and business in China. He wasawarded Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year – Ireland accolade in 2007.

PCH offers integrated solutions from product design right through to fulfillment direct to hubs orthe end customer. Major clients include three of the top five personal computer companies, three ofthe top five telecom and networking companies, and three of the top five consumer electronicscompanies worldwide. PCH reported revenues of US$152.6 million in 2009, and 2010 revenuesexceeded US$400 million.

John Concannon, Director Market Development, Failte IrelandJohn Concannon is Director of Market Development with Failte Ireland, the NationalTourism Development Authority of Ireland. John is a graduate of NUI, Galway andholds a Masters degree in Business Studies, a Bachelors degree in Commerce and aPostgraduate Higher Diploma in Marketing Practice. In 2004, he was appointed ChiefExecutive of Ireland West Tourism after holding a range of roles with Unilever PLC,

and Dubarry of Ireland. In June 2006 John was appointed as a Director of Fáilte Ireland. John is also Chairman of Cope

Galway, a Galway based charity focused on homelessness, domestic violence, and seniors support.John was recently awarded the accolade “Irish Marketer of The Year’ for his work relating to themarketing of Ireland as a tourist destination.



Danny McCoy, Director General, IBECDanny McCoy is Director General at the Irish Business & Employers Confederation(IBEC). Prior to joining IBEC he was a Senior Research Officer at the Economic andSocial Research Institute (ESRI) and an economist in the Central Bank of Ireland.

He has held lecturing posts at Dublin City University, University College London,University of Oxford and Trinity College Dublin. He was a research associate at the

Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) in London. He hasbeen a visiting lecturer at the IMD Business School in Switzerland and Harvard University in the US.

He was Manager of the European Forecasting Network comprising ten European research institutesin a joint project for the European Commission and was member of European panel on the ExternEproject examining the externality aspects of different fuel cycles.

He is a regular contributor in the print and broadcast media and has written columns for the WallStreet Journal, the Financial Times and the Irish Times among other international newspapers.

Mark McCall, FD Americas Mark has more than 18 years of financial, corporate communications and investorrelations experience, providing strategic counsel on a variety of complexcommunications challenges. He has advised numerous private and public companies,developing corporate positioning programs, as well as advising on transactional workincluding, M&As, IPOs, restructurings, corporate governance, crisis situations, among

others. Mark has deep investor relations and corporate communications experience, having workedwith a broad cross-section of clients including, The Coca-Cola Company, PanAmSat, Alliance DataSystems, MasterCard International, Harmony Gold, William Blair, NCR, Allstate and GenworthFinancial.

Prior to joining FD, Mark was VP of Operations/Finance for a privately held company where henegotiated and managed acquisitions and oversaw the company’s capital raising activities. Hisprevious financial and investor relations experience includes work in the Chicago offices of Burson-Marsteller and Hill and Knowlton. Mark received his MBA from the University of Chicago’s GraduateSchool of Business.

Buddy Darby, Kiawah Development Partners (Doonbeg)Since leading the effort to acquire Kiawah Island from the Kuwaitis in 1988, Buddy Darby hasheld primary responsibility for Kiawah's development activities, overseeing all operationsinvolved in the development of the Island. He is particularly gratified by the fact that underhis guidance, "Kiawah has evolved from a languishing regional attraction into one of theworld's most renowned golfing destinations," garnering the 1996 ULI Award for Excellence,

among other accolades. Darby also expanded the appeal of Kiawah Island by leading the creation of neighborhood shopping at

Freshfields Village, and was responsible for the development of the Doonbeg Golf Club. Located in CountyClare, Ireland, the Club features residential cottages, exceptional accommodations (The Lodge at DoonbegGolf Club), and a Greg Norman-designed links course, which has been internationally recognized as a top-25golfing destination by industry publications and travel writers alike.

Darby now has his sights set on 2,500 acres on the island of St. Kitts. The project, known as ChristopheHarbour, include a Tom Fazio-designed golf course, a five-star hotel, and a 300 acre marina which willaccommodate super yachts in a naturally protected harbor unlike any in the world.

Currently, Darby is President of the Kiawah Island Club and is a Stockholder of The Beach Company. He isChairman of the Board of the College of Charleston School of Business Board of Governors. He also serveson the Board of the MUSC Children’s Hospital, the Kiawah Island Community Association, the CharlestonSymphony Orchestra, and The First Tee of Greater Charleston.



Kieran McLoughlin, President and CEO, The Worldwide Ireland FundsKieran is responsible for the Fund’s network of donors and events across the UnitedStates and its relationship with its sister organizations in 12 countries. Since it’sinception in 1976, the Fund has raised more than $350,000,000 for over 1,200 projectspromoting peace and reconciliation, arts and culture, education and communitydevelopment.

In 2009, the worst year in the history of philanthropy, only 12% of US charities generated a surplusof which the Fund was one. Subsequently, the Fund achieved its most successful year in 2010 in termsof revenue raised and grants made.

The Fund recently launched its Promising Ireland campaign to raise $100 million for Irish charitiesresponding to greater need across Ireland.

Danny Moore, Lough Shore Investments (formerly of Wombat/NYSE)Danny Moore is a former Chief Operating Officer of the NYSE Euronext tradingtechnology segment, NYSE Technologies. Prior to joining NYSE in 2008, Mr. Mooreserved both as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Belfast-basedtrading technology firm Wombat Financial Software. Wombat, under Mr. Moore’sstewardship, was acquired by NYSE Euronext in March 2008. Before joining Wombat,

Mr. Moore worked with Newry-based First Derivatives Plc. In late 2010, Mr. Moore established Belfast-based investment firm Lough Shore Investments. Through

Lough Shore Investments Mr. Moore plans to partner with both established and promising nextgeneration start-up companies primarily based in Northern Ireland. Mr. Moore also plans to bringsignificant foreign and U.S. investment to the Northern Irish economy through Lough ShoreInvestments.

Denis O’Brien, Chairman, Digicel Group Denis O'Brien is Chairman and principal shareholder of the privately-owned DigicelGroup, one of the fastest growing cellular companies in the world.

Founded in 2001, Digicel Group has extended its operations to 32 markets with over11.5 million subscribers in the Caribbean, Central and South America region. Mr.O’Brien is one of Ireland’s leading entrepreneurs with extensive investments in several

sectors. He also founded Communicorp Group which owns and manages media and broadcasting-related companies in Ireland and Europe. Denis O’Brien founded the Esat Telecom Group plc and builtit throughout the 1990’s until its sale to British Telecom plc for €2.4 billion.

Outside of his extensive business interests, Denis chaired the 2003 Special Olympics World SummerGames in Ireland. He serves as a Director on the US Board of Concern Worldwide.In addition, he is theChairman and Co-Founder of Frontline, the International Foundation for the Protection of HumanRights Defenders. In 2000 he established The Iris O’Brien Foundation to assist projects which aim toalleviate disadvantaged communities. Denis holds a BA degree from University College Dublin and anMBA from Boston College.

Gary McGann, Group Chief Executive Officer, Smurfit Kappa Group Gary McGann is Group Chief Executive Officer of the Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) whichhas turnover in excess of €6.5 billion and employs more than 37,000 employees inalmost 330 operations. Before joining the Jefferson Smurfit Group in 1998 he heldvarious executive positions at senior VP or CEO level in Irish industry in both theprivate and public sector.

Gary is Chairman of Aon Ireland, is a Director of United Drug plc and IBEC (Irish Business andEmployers Confederation), and a member of ERT (European Round Table of Industrialists). Garyobtained a Bachelor of Arts from U.C.D., is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Accountants, andholds a Masters degree in Management Science.

He is married to Moira and they have 3 daughters and two granddaughters. He enjoys golf, musicand theatre.


Participants

Session 2 – Energy/Alternative Energy

Session 1 – Reinventing Ireland Inc (continued)

Moderator: Professor J Owen Lewis, BArch (NUI) MSc (Manch) FRIAI FCIBSEFEI EurIng MIEI CEng, Sustainable Energy Authority of IrelandOwen Lewis is Chief Executive of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.Previously Professor of Architectural Science at UCD Dublin, in 2001 he was electedDean of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. He was Principal of the UCDCollege of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences and Vice–President of the

university in 2005-‘06 following the major re-structuring of UCD in which he played a key role.He founded the UCD Energy Research Group in 1975 and was its Director until 2008. He has taught

and lectured in the USA, China, Russia, South America and Africa and in most of the Member Statesin the European Union. He co-coordinated a considerable number of European Commission researchand dissemination activities and acted as expert advisor to a number of its directorates, includingthose dealing with research, energy and transport, industry and environment.

He was Director of Innovation and R+D in the utility Bord na Móna 2006 to 2008.In 1976 he co-founded the Solar Energy Society of Ireland. Professor Lewis has published nearly 200

papers and books as author, joint author or editor.

Terence O’Rourke, Managing Partner, KPMGTerence O’Rourke is managing partner of KPMG in Ireland. He is a qualified charteredaccountant (FCA) and holds a BA in economics and history from UCD. He joined KPMG(then called SKC) straight out of college and qualified in the firm as a charteredaccountant. He was then transferred to the Boston office and spent two years workingin the US. He returned to Dublin in the mid-1980s and was appointed partner in the

firm in 1988. Since then he has had a variety of roles including Head of Audit and, most recently,Managing Partner since December 2006. He was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountantsin Ireland in 2004/05. Terence is a member of KPMG International’s Global Board, EMA Board andGlobal Executive Team.

Barry O’Leary, CEO, IDA Ireland Barry O’Leary was appointed Chief Executive Designate of IDA Ireland in October 2007.He took over the role of CEO from Sean Dorgan on January 1st 2008. Prior to thisappointment he was Divisional Manager of the IDA’s Life Sciences and Information andCommunications Technology business units. Mr. O’Leary has worked in IDA for over 30years in most of its business areas including two periods, 1983-1991 and 1995-2002 in

Germany, latterly as Director of Europe.On his return to Germany in 1995 he was responsible for running IDA’s offices in Stuttgart and

Düsseldorf which covered Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. He subsequently became Directorof Europe and centralised IDA’s German offices into Frankfurt. During this period he was closelyassociated with winning major projects from companies such as Bertelsmann, SAP, Deutsche Bank,Lufthansa, Kostal, Allianz and a number of key Italian financial services projects.

On his return to Ireland in late 2002 Mr. O’Leary was initially appointed Divisional ManagerPharmaceuticals and Biopharmaceuticals and a member of the IDA’s Executive Committee. Hisresponsibilities were increased in 2004 to include the Life Sciences and Information andCommunications Technology areas.


ParticipantsSession 2 – Energy/Alternative Energy

Dermot Byrne, Chief Executive, EirGrid plcDermot Byrne is Chief Executive of EirGrid plc, which is responsible for the delivery ofhigh quality services in Ireland and Northern Ireland, through the reliable, secure,operation of high voltage power grids, the development of strategic infrastructure, andthe efficient management of the wholesale electricity market.

EirGrid’s work is crucial to economic development and inward investment in Irelandby high-tech industries, to leveraging Ireland’s rich renewable energy resources, and tocompetitiveness. Dermot has developed EirGrid into a group comprising the transmission operator inIreland, EirGrid TSO; as well as the System Operator Northern Ireland, and the Single ElectricityMarket Operator, which manages the wholesale power market across the island of Ireland.

Key achievements in EirGrid include the development and roll-out of the crucial Grid25 griddevelopment strategy; the development of the Single Electricity Market on the island, and thefacilitation of Ireland’s leading position in wind energy integration, as well as the development,funding and current construction of the East West Interconnector project, between Ireland andBritain.

Dermot has extensive senior management experience in the electricity industry in Ireland andabroad. A Fellow of Engineers Ireland, Dermot is a holder of a Master’s Degree in Engineering and anMBA. He is also a distinguished member of the international electricity body CIGRE.

Tony O’Reilly Jnr, Providence Resources P.l.c.Tony O’Reilly Jnr, is CEO and founder of Providence Resources P.l.c, an AIM and Dublinlisted oil and gas company.

Previously he was CEO of the Wedgwood Group and Chairman of ARCONInternational Resources P.l.c. where he spent 13 years from 1992 – 2005 and served asChairman from 2001 – 2005.

Tony is currently serving as a non-executive director of Zenergy Power plc, Trustee of the O’Reillyfoundation and a Trustee of the Industrial Relations Research Trust.

Tony was educated in Clongowes Wood College, Ireland and went on to Brown University from wherehe graduated in 1990.

Dr. Peter Brennan, Government Affairs Advisor, ByrneWallaceDr. Peter Brennan is Government Affairs Advisor at Byrne Wallace. As ManagerDirector of EPS Consulting (www.epsconsulting.ie) and Bid Management Services(www.bidmanagement.ie) he provides public affairs, strategic and economic policyadvice to clients. He is founder of the Dublin Chamber Green Economy Group, anadvisor to the Irish Parliament’s Climate Change and Energy Committee, main author

of a report for the Irish Government on business opportunities in the green economy, and chair of theInstitute of European and International Affair’s Climate Change Research Group.

Peter is a former diplomat, public servant and a Director of IBEC. He spent 22 years of his career inBrussels and is an expert on EU policy. He was President of Dublin Chamber in 2010 and is a Fellow ofthe Irish Institute of Management Consultants and Advisors.

Paul O’Hara, Director, AshokaPaul O’Hara is Director at Ashoka - World Leaders in Social Innovation and Founder ofAshoka Localizer. Born and raised in West of Ireland. 33 years of age. Educated at NUIGalway and UCD Smurfit School of Business. Worked at Unilever & Cadbury beforesetting up first social business. Established Ashoka in Ireland in 2007 & Scandinavia in2009. Established Ashoka Localizer to accelerate the spread and impact of social

innovations across the world. Advises many of Europe’s leading social entrepreneurs and SocialInnovation Policy.


ParticipantsSession 3 – Life Sciences

Eunan Maguire, President US Operations, Azur PharmaEunan Maguire is President of US Operations of Azur Pharma, a private specialitypharmaceutical business. Azur Pharma was founded in 2005 in Dublin, Ireland and hasestablished commercial franchises in psychiatry, pain and women’s health. AzurPharma’s emerging pipeline includes clinical stage projects in psychiatry and pain.

Previously Eunan was Vice President of Business Development at KingPharmaceuticals, a publicly listed US speciality pharmaceutical business, recently acquired by Pfizer.From 1997 to 2003 Eunan worked at Elan Corporation plc, a public biotechnology company, as VicePresident of Strategic Planning. In these roles he gained broad experience in corporate development,funding and capital market activities.

Eunan is a chartered accountant and trained at KPMG. He was educated at Blackrock College,Dublin, Ireland and graduated from UCD, Dublin, Ireland with a bachelor in International Commerceand French.

Brian MacCraith, President, Dublin City UniversityProfessor Brian MacCraith joined the staff of the Physics Department of Dublin CityUniversity in 1986, and immediately established the Optical Sensors Laboratory. InOctober 1999, he became founding Director of the National Centre for SensorResearch at DCU and in 2005 was appointed Director of the Biomedical DiagnosticsInstitute, an Academic-Industrial-Clinical partnership, funded under the Science

Foundation Ireland CSET scheme. He holds a Personal Chair in Physics at DCU. Professor MacCraith has served as a Visiting Scientist

at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, was awarded a Fellowship of the Institute ofPhysics, is a previous winner of the Mallin Invent Award for innovation, and in 2007, was elected tomembership of the Royal Irish Academy. He has published widely.

Professor MacCraith was appointed President of Dublin City University on 13 July 2010.

Moderator: Dr Ruth Freeman, Science Foundation Ireland Dr Ruth Freeman is Director of Enterprise and International Affairs at ScienceFoundation Ireland (SFI), where her remit includes developing and fosteringrelationships with foreign agencies and forging strategic alliances in research anddevelopment. She also interacts with companies and industry associations directly, aswell as being the main SFI contact point with Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland. The

Technology and Innovation Development Award at SFI is run under Dr Freeman’s direction.Prior to her current appointment, Dr Freeman was Head of Industry-Research Development at SFI

with responsibility for coordinating all SFI award programmes involving industrial collaborations,including the Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET), Strategic Research Clusters(SRC) and Principal Investigator Industry Supplement programmes. Dr Ruth Freeman joined SFI as aScientific Programme Manager in November 2006


ParticipantsSession 3 – Life Sciences

Terry McGuire, Polaris Venture Partners Terry McGuire is a co-founder and general partner of Polaris Venture Partners basedin the Boston office where he focuses on life sciences investments. Terry has co-founded three companies: Inspire Pharmaceuticals, AIR (Advanced InhalationResearch), and MicroCHIPS, and currently represents Polaris on the boards ofdirectors of 10 portfolio companies.

Terry is Chairman Emeritus of the National Venture Capital Association, which represents ninetypercent of the venture capitalists in the United States. He served as Chairman from 2009-2010. Hechairs the Board of Overseers of the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, and serves onthe boards of The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School, and MIT’sDavid Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.

Terry holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a MS in engineering from The Thayer School atDartmouth College, and a BS in physics and economics from Hobart College.

Terry is a recipient of the 2009 Massachusetts Society for Medical Research Award, and the 2005Albert Einstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Life Sciences.

Pat O’Flynn, Solvotrin Pat is an entrepreneur with over fifteen years experience ranging from operationalmanagement to strategic leadership roles in highly regulated industries. Pat waspreviously CEO of AVR-Safeway Limited, a company which he co-founded and in whichhe created significant shareholder value. The company was sold to international utilitycompany Veolia in 2008.

Pat has successfully managed joint-ventures and collaborations with leading internationalcompanies. He was a finalist in the 2008 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He holdsacademic qualifications in engineering, business management and corporate finance and is a memberof the Institute of Directors.

Dave Shanahan, IDA Ireland Dave Shanahan is a science graduate of University College Cork and a businessgraduate of Trinity College Dublin. He has worked for 22 years in Ireland’s healthcareIndustry, 20 years spent in Pharmaceuticals where he previously worked for J&J, ICI,Zeneca including 7 years as Country Manager for Pfizer Healthcare Ireland.

He was also CEO of Charter Medical Group a healthcare startup and has consulted fora number of Biotech and Pharma companies.

He joined IDA Ireland as Global Head of Life Sciences in July 2009, responsible for IDA’s global teamworking to attract further multinational investment to Ireland in the areas of Pharma,Biopharmaceuticals, Medical Technologies and Devices, Food and Healthcare Services.

LunchInvest Northern Ireland’s success as an international business location

Speakers:Don Henderson, CTO, NYSE TechnologiesBrian Conlon, First Derivatives plc Speaker Christine Quinn, New York City Council


ParticipantsSession 4 – Financial Services

Moderator: Margaret Brennan, BloombergMargaret Brennan is the anchor of “InBusiness with Margaret Brennan” (10am-12pmET), Bloomberg Television's weekday global business program that covers the world ofbusiness and investing as well as the top political, economic and consumer newsimpacting the global marketplace. Based in New York City, Brennan brings togetherinterviews, analysis and perspective as the U.S. trading day gains momentum and

European markets close. Brennan's reporting at Bloomberg Television has brought her around the world for interviews with

leading CEOs, investors and heads of state. In January 2010, she hosted a live broadcast fromRiyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she interviewed Saudi Finance Minister Ibrahim bin Abdul Aziz al-Assafand former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair. Brennan has also reported from Cairo, the Gulf Coast andthe World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. She was the only journalist to participate in andreport on the Global Irish Economic Forum in September 2009.

Brennan joined Bloomberg Television in 2009 from CNBC, where she served as a generalassignment reporter and contributed to MSNBC and NBC’s “Today Show” and “Nightly News.” Shebegan her business news career in 2002 as a producer for financial news legend Louis Rukeyser.

Graduating with highest distinction from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree inforeign affairs and Middle East studies and a minor in Arabic language, Margaret Brennan was namedan Emmerich-Wright Scholar for an outstanding thesis. As a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, she studiedArabic at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan.

Margaret Brennan is a Whitehead Fellow with the Foreign Policy Association and serves on theAdvisory Board of the Smurfit School of Business at the University College Dublin. She speaksArabic.

Michael Brennan, CEO, North Sea Partners LLC Michael (Mickey) Brennan is the Chief Executive Officer of North Sea Partners. Mr.Brennan has over two decades of global experience in the trading, research anddistribution of credit market securities. Mr. Brennan was co-head of Global Credit andLoan Distribution at Citigroup in New York, and prior to that, he was head of HighYield and Distressed Securities Sales, Trading and Research at Citigroup in London.

Under his direction, Citigroup was consistently ranked among the top three underwriters of globalhigh yield securities. From 2001 to 2004 he was the head of high yield sales at Credit Suisse in theirLondon office.

During his career, Mr. Brennan has been instrumental in the largest and most prominent global highyield and leveraged buyout transactions, including, Allison Transmission Inc., Alltel Corp., ClearChannel Communications Inc., CMS Energy Corp., Dollar General Corp., Edison Mission Energy, El PasoCorp., First Data Corp., Ford Motor Company, Frontier Communications Corp., GMAC, HarrahsEntertainment Inc., Hawker Beechcraft Inc., LyondellBasell, MGM Mirage, Realogy Corp., Rite AidCorp., Sungard Data Systems, Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Co LLC, US Oncology Inc., andUnited Surgical Partners International Inc., among others in the US.

His European transactions include Antenna TV SA, Ardagh Glass Ltd, Digicel Group Ltd, Eco-BatTechnologies Ltd, Fage Dairy Industry SA, Gateway Communications UK Limited, Inmarsat PLC,Intelsat Ltd, Mauser Industriebeteiligungen GmbH, Riverdeep Group and Yioula Glassworks SA. Mr.Brennan was a pioneer in creating the South Africa high yield market, and led the Cell C Pty Ltd,Consol Glass Ltd, Foodcorp Ltd, Peermont Global Pty Ltd and New Reclamation Group Pty Ltdtransactions.

Mr. Brennan is a founding board member of Gateway Communications and Custom Vault Securities.An active philanthropist, Mr. Brennan is a director of the TLOA Fund, the Rogers Memorial LibraryFoundation and the Friends of The Bay. He is a graduate of Iona College.


Participants

John Bruton, President of IFSC Ireland, former Taoiseach (Irish PrimeMinister), former Ambassador, Delegation of the European Commission tothe USJohn Bruton is a former Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) from 1994-1997. Prior to hiselection as Prime Minister, he was a senior Irish politician who served in cabinet asMinister for Finance, Minister for Industry and Energy and Minister for Trade,

Commerce and Tourism. While Prime Minister, John Bruton presided over a successful Irish EUPresidency in 1996 and helped finalise the Stability and Growth Pact, which governs the managementof the single European currency, the Euro. From 1999 until his appointment as Ambassador, he wasone of ten Vice Presidents of the European People's Party. Before being appointed Ambassador to theUnited States, John Bruton served as a leading member of the Convention that drafted the proposedEuropean Constitution, signed in Rome in October, 2004. He graduated from University CollegeDublin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and politics in 1968 before studying to become abarrister.

Michael Brewster, Managing Director, Credit Suisse Private Banking USAMichael Brewster joined Credit Suisse Private Banking USA as a Managing Director in2008 and has spent the past 18 years managing investments for high net worth andinstitutional clients. He is a registered Investment Advisor involved in analyzing,reviewing, and investing for the MB Value/ Growth and MB Strategic Dividend &Income Portfolios. He also co-manages the Small Mid-Cap and Special Situations

Portfolio on the team.Michael is a member of the Enterprise Ireland Financial Services board and the North American

Advisory Council (NAAC) established by Shannon Development (Irish Government BusinessDevelopment Agencies). He is also a Board Member of the Irish in Business Network (IIBN). Michaelwas recognized in 2010 and 2011 as one of Barron’s Top 1,000 Advisors. He has been honored by IrishAmerican Magazine as one of the "Top 50 Irish Americans on Wall Street" for many years, as well asone of the "Top 40 under 40" by the Irish Echo in 2008.

Brian Conlon, Chief Executive Officer, First Derivatives plc Brian has worked in the capital markets sector since 1990. Brian trained with KPMGbefore joining the risk management team in Morgan Stanley International, London. Hejoined SunGuard the NASDAQ-quoted derivatives software house as a capital marketsconsultant. During his time with SunGuard, he worked with more than 60 financialinstitutions worldwide. He left in 1996 to set up First Derivatives plc.

Shaun Kelly Vice Chair – Operations for KPMG LLPShaun Kelly is Vice Chair – Operations for KPMG LLP. In that role he is responsible forforecasting and planning and monitoring the execution of the firm’s financial plan. Healso has responsibility for oversight and execution of key KPMG shared servicesincluding finance and accounting, information technology, operations services andmeeting and travel services. He serves as a member of the Firm’s Management

committee.In October 2010 Shaun was also appointed to serve as Chief Operating Officer, Americas. In this

position, he works with the leaders of the KPMG International member firms in the region to aligntheir respective strategies, structure and plans. He is also a member of KPMG’s Global ExecutiveTeam.

Shaun was previously the Vice Chair in charge of KPMG’s U.S. Tax practice and Regional Head of theAmericas Tax practice. He serves as a member of the Firm’s Management committee. Prior toassuming the Vice Chair role in 2005, Shaun served as the leader for KPMG’s Global TransactionServices practice and Regional Coordinating Partner for the Transaction Services practice in theAmericas.

Shaun grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and joined KPMG International’s Irish member firm inDublin in 1980 and transferred to the U.S. firm’s San Francisco office in 1984. He was admitted to theU.S. partnership in 1999.

Session 4 – Financial Services


Participants

Julian Yarr, Managing Partner, A&L GoodbodyJulian Yarr is Managing Partner of A&L Goodbody, one of Ireland's leading corporatelaw firms. Julian is a Corporate Partner specializing in mergers and acquisitions,securities law and private equity and is consistently recognised by internationalcommentators as one of the leading Corporate lawyers in Ireland. Prior to becomingManaging Partner, Julian headed up the Firm's London office.

A&L Goodbody has a long history of working with a large number of US corporations in relation toactivities in Ireland. The Firm is headquartered in Dublin and also has offices in Belfast, London andNew York and a total headcount of 540.

Deirdre Somers, Chief Executive, Irish Stock ExchangeChief Executive of the Irish Stock Exchange (“ISE”) since June 2007, Deirdre leads theISE in growing its position as the globally dominant exchange for listing internationalinvestment funds and specialist debt instruments and as the centre-point of liquidityfor Irish cash equities.

Deirdre is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland; a member ofthe IFSC Clearing House Group, established by the Irish Government to co-ordinate the developmentof the international financial services sector in Ireland and Vice President of the Federation ofEuropean Securities Exchanges (FESE), where she chairs FESE’s Strategy and SME financingsubgroups. She is a vocal advocate for market transparency, high corporate governance standardsand excellence in investor relations.

Jim Whitaker, Managing Director, BNY Mellon Mr. Whitaker is Managing Director and Head of Alternative Fund Client Managementfor BNY Mellon. BNY Mellon provides a wide array of services to the Alternative FundIndustry including; accounting and administration, custody, securities servicing andtreasury services. The Alternative Fund Client Management team is responsible formanaging the Company’s relationships with existing institutional clients as well as new

business development across all of the Company’s alternative fund services. Mr. Whitaker was aSenior Vice President in the Corporate Restructuring Division and Senior Vice President in the Mediaand Telecommunications Division prior to joining the Alternative Fund Client Management Division.

Mr. Whitaker received an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a B.S inFinance from Siena College. Jim and his wife Christine live in New York with their 3 children.

Session 4 – Financial Services


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Moderator: John Hartnett, ITLG John Hartnett is the President and Founder of the Irish Technology Leadership Groupand Chairman and Founder of Irish Technology Capital. With over 20 years of seniormanagement experience in technology sales, marketing, and operations in the US andIreland, John has held key leadership roles in some of the industries most prominentcompanies including Palm Inc., G24 Innovations, Handspring, Metacreations, Claris,

AT&T, Digital Equipment and Wang. Mr. Hartnett earned a marketing degree from the Marketing Institute of Ireland, a postgraduate

diploma in finance from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and completedthe executive management program at Stanford University. He is a native of Limerick and is on theboard of the University of Limerick Foundation. John is also a member of the Ireland Fund and theUS-Ireland Alliance.

Professor Don Barry, President University Of LimerickProfessor Don Barry is President of the University of Limerick (UL). He holds a PhD inStatistics from Yale University and was the first ever holder of the Chair in Statistics atUL as well as Visiting Professor at Yale University.

The University of Limerick is an independent, internationally-focussed University withover 11,300 students and 1,200 staff. Widely recognized as young, energetic and

entrepreneurial, UL has a particular focus on the generation of knowledge which is relevant to theneeds of Ireland’s socio-economic development.

UL has pioneered the commercialization of its research to create spin-outs, license IP and helpcreate high potential start-ups in a range of fields including biotech and ICT, with one recentlyacquired by Life Technologies.

UL’s cooperative education programme annually places 2,000 students in over 1,600 employerorganisations in Ireland and internationally.

Paddy CosgravePaddy (27) is the founder of Founders, an annual private gathering of the world'sleading tech company founders, dubbed "Davos for Geeks" by Bloomberg. In 2010, hehosted 150 leading tech company founders in Dublin, including the founders ofYoutube, Twitter and Skype. Other guests included the Chairman of Goldman Sachsand the Chief Economist of the World Bank.

Previously Paddy launched the Dublin Web Summit Series, which attracted over 2,500 attendees in2010.

He is a former chairman of International Telecommunications Union Global Youth Forum and a UNeLeader for ICT. He is a co-founder of the Undergraduate Awards of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Paddy has written for The Irish Times and Sunday Independent on innovation and on politics,including reflections on his time with US Senator John McCain.

Paddy graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2006.

Session 5 – Education/R&D/Technology/Commercialisation


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Stephen Donnelly TD, Independent Representative for Wicklow and East CarlowStephen Donnelly has just been elected in Ireland’s recent general election, as anindependent representative for Wicklow & East Carlow, to the 31st Dáil (the lowerhouse of the Irish parliament). Prior to the election he worked as a managementconsultant with McKinsey & Company.

He was never previously involved in political life other than as a citizen who exercisedhis right to vote in elections and referenda. His successful campaign, of just five weeks duration, isbelieved to be unprecedented in terms of its brevity and the fact that he was previously completelyunknown to the public, having never stood for public office of any kind.

His success is testimony to the Irish public’s appetite for change, the strength of Stephen’scredentials and candidacy and the hard work of his voluntary campaign team.

Stephen lives, where he grew up, in the picturesque seaside town of Greystones (Co. Wicklow) withhis wife, Susan, and two young boys.

Stephen studied engineering at UCD and MIT before joining international management consultancy,McKinsey & Company. Through his work with McKinsey he gained first-hand experience of how tobring transformational change to global private sector companies, major public sector organisationsand NGOs on a wide range of briefs.

John Flynn, Managing Director, ACT Venture CapitalJohn is the Managing Director of ACT Venture Capital, which is one of the largestventure firms in Ireland. He has been involved in technology businesses and venturecapital investing for over 20 years. ACT has raised over €350m from leading Irish andInternational financial institutions across multiple venture funds. It has invested inover 70 companies, predominantly in Ireland, which have subsequently attracted over

€500m in further expansion capital from international venture investors, including many tier-one USinvestors.

John is currently on the boards of AEP, Corvil, Eblana, e-Net, PrismTech and Lime Microsystems.Previously, he was involved in numerous investee companies including Allfinanz (acquired by MunichRe), Cape Clear Software (acquired by Workday), Massana (acquired by Agere), Stockbyte (acquired byGetty Images) and Straatum (acquired by Lam Research).

John holds an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a degree in Physics and Mathematics fromUniversity College Dublin.


Dr Ruth Freeman, Science Foundation Ireland Dr Ruth Freeman is Director of Enterprise and International Affairs at ScienceFoundation Ireland (SFI), where her remit includes developing and fosteringrelationships with foreign agencies and forging strategic alliances in research anddevelopment. She also interacts with companies and industry associations directly, aswell as being the main SFI contact point with Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland. The

Technology and Innovation Development Award at SFI is run under Dr Freeman’s direction.Prior to her current appointment, Dr Freeman was Head of Industry-Research Development at SFI

with responsibility for coordinating all SFI award programmes involving industrial collaborations,including the Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET), Strategic Research Clusters(SRC) and Principal Investigator Industry Supplement programmes. Dr Ruth Freeman joined SFI as aScientific Programme Manager in November 2006


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Diarmuid O’Brien, CRANNDiarmuid O'Brien has a degree in Science of Materials from Trinity College Dublin(TCD) and a PhD in Physics from the University of Sheffield. He carried out post-doctorate research at Kyushu University, Japan and Princeton University, USA prior tolecturing at TCD. He then, over a period of seven years, worked in senior managementroles across three start-up companies: NTera Ltd., Xoliox S.A. and Deerac Fluidics. In

these companies Dr. O'Brien focused on the commercialisation of products based on technologiesinitially developed at universities.

Dr. O'Brien joined CRANN as the Executive Director in March 2005, establishing CRANN as one ofIrelands largest research Institutes with a research staff of 250. CRANN has an internationally leadingreputation both for fundamental research and for partnership with industry – currently working withover 70 companies.

Michael R. Bloomberg,Mayor of the City of New York

Greg Turley, founder and CEO, CarTrawlerGreg Turley founder and CEO of CarTrawler. Greg brings over 25 years of experience inthe Travel and Transport Industry (car rental, car leasing, car sales, brokering and nowdistribution). Acknowledged as a business leader and visionary and having worked forover two decades in the car rental industry, Greg saw a gap in the distribution marketin 2003 in offering all car rental companies a second-to-none car rental distribution

system - giving exclusive access to Airline, Lodging and Online Travel Agency sales channels. CarTrawler came from his hands-on understanding of the car rental industry, matched with cutting

edge distribution technology providing a true end-to-end, and integrated service to car rentalcustomers. Greg's vision is to empower CarTrawler's customers and suppliers to achieve increasedrevenue from selling car rental either as a single product or combining it with travel itineraries (airand lodging). Greg continues to innovate and drive CarTrawler's strategy and evolve product designs.Upon the launch of CarTrawler in 2004, Greg was nominated for the Ernst and Young EmergingEntrepreneur of the Year Award in 2005 and was recently listed as one of the Top 50 travel ”PowerPlayers” by Travolution Magazine.


Closing Ceremony

Jerry Kennelly, Tweak.comJerry Kennelly, a photojournalist, started his first business as a photographic news andpicture agency in 1981. In 1996 Kennelly founded Stockbyte and Stockdisc, twocompanies based in Tralee, Ireland that captured 10% of the global royalty-free stockphotography market in ten years. In 2006 both companies were sold to Getty Imagesfor a consideration of $135m. Kennelly’s companies produced the highest pro-rata

profit and profitability per employee in this worldwide industry.Kennelly has spearheaded the Young Entrepreneur Program (www.youngentrepreneur.ie)Since 2006. He has collaborated with the international poverty relief agency GOAL in leading a

team of photographers who documented the work of the aid agency throughout Africa and India.Since 2007, he has been working with a multinational team to set up Tweak.com, the world’s first

one stop shop for print and design headquartered in Killorglin, Ireland with offices in New York andother worldwide locations. Just two weeks after launch, in February 2011, Tweak.com received theEditor’s Choice Award from the US based PCMag.com.


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