CLASS NOTES


in association with Where are they n w? BAFS 1995


Shane Hegarty is a senior risk manager at hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management in New York. His previous experience includes nine years at JPMorgan, both in London and New York, and three years at Morgan Stanley. He also holds a master’s degree in mathematics of finance from Columbia University and is a chartered financial analyst (CFA).


2009


Thomas Downey joined Accenture's Systems Integration and Technology team last September.


BBLS 1995


Dennis Agnew has been appointed partner in charge of the New York office of business law firm ByrneWallace, where he advises US clients on their Irish interests and helps connect Irish clients with appropriate US contacts. He previously worked as corporate and inward investment partner in ByrneWallace’s Dublin office.


1997 Peadar O’Baoighill (MBS 02) is living in London and runs UK/ Ireland for cloud com- puting enablement company Parallels.com. He can be contacted at www.peadar.tel.


cer with Carlow Local Authorities. He has also been a retained firefighter since 1986.


BComm


1998 Mariliana Moschona is marketing manager at the Port of Ravenna Authority in Italy. She lives in Ravenna (Northern Adriatic Coast) with her husband Vania and their little baby girl Stefania who was born in December 2008. She would love to hear from fellow graduates. Email:


mariliana.moschona@port. ravenna.it.


2008


Melissa Kelly got engaged recently and is due to get married in 2012.


BBS


2001 Paul Curran has been married to Stephanie for 22 years and they have four children. Having started as a light equipment operator in 1986, he began correspon- dence study, studying fire engineering. His BBS is in trade union studies, and he has since completed a diploma in GIS and an MA in local government man- agement (IPA). He is cur- rently an administrative offi-


50 UCD BUSINESS CONNECTIONS


1969 Hilary Kenny launched her new book Understanding the Customer – the Art of Selling in June. Based on the expert- ise and experience of the sen- ior consultants in The Communication Clinic, where Hilary is head of the training clinic, the book is practically focused on helping people enhance their selling skills. Email: hilaryknn@gmail.com.


1974 Declan Byrne (MBS 75) is enjoying and would rec- ommend self-employment. In 2007, after 25 years tax consulting with PwC, he set up a boutique tax practice focused on individuals. He advises on the tax aspects of moving from employment to self-employment and acting as a non-executive director, as well as personal issues, and handles annual tax returns. His office is at 15 Herbert Place, Dublin 2 and he can be contacted on tel: 01 662 5973 or email: byrnetax@gmail.com.


1982 John Kelly is delighted to announce the launch of recruitment firm, Kate Matthew Solutions, which specialises in software testing and quality assurance and


supplies resources across Ireland, UK and Continental Europe. This follows the company’s four-year success with Hanson Regan, which has focused exclusively on providing SAP contract resources. For more informa- tion on working in SAP or testing projects, tel: 0044 1689 868 181 or visit www.hansonregan.com.


PwC Ireland in Dublin. Based near Worcester in the UK’s Midlands, he is married to Catherine and has two girls, Eleanor (15) and Lydia (11).


John McGlade is sales and marketing director at MarketSpreads.ie, the Irish financial spread trading company based in Dublin’s Docklands. He lives in Dartry with fellow graduate and barrister Monika Leech and their four kids. Email: john.mcglade@market- spreads.ie.


1987 Tony Dignam (DipPrAcc 88) is managing partner of Franchise Connections, which helps Irish business- es grow through franchising and assists people in choos- ing the right franchise for their background, skills and passion.


1988


Charlie Fell (MBS 89) is chief executive of Sequoia Markets.


1989


Colin MacDonald is chief executive of Fine Grain Property, Singapore. Fine Grain invests in property in Singapore and manages property investments on behalf of its clients. Since graduation, Colin has spent 21 years in banking and property in Asia.


1986


Michael Doolin (MBS 87) just started a new role as HR director in ISS UK, having spent over two years as HR director at


1992


Noel Cullen (MBS 95) wants to remind classmates that class reunion drinks are on again this year in Doheny & Nesbitt’s, on


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