Experience

World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC)

• Head of Institutional Distribution

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  ■ Responsible for developing and fostering global institutional client relationships between the WPIC and investors (portfolio managers, buyside and sellside analysts, strategists, advisors and opinion formers) to ensure research insights and the investment case for platinum meet the needs of different investor groupings■ Entrepreneurial and business development mind-set with the ability to build new relationships and continually engage with latest insights regarding the investment case for platinum and current market dislocations

• Manager - Investor Development

  • Mar 2016 - Mar 2021

  ■ The World Platinum Investment Council's mission is to stimulate investor demand for physical platinum through both actionable insights and targeted development: providing investors with the information to support informed decisions regarding platinum; working with financial institutions and market participants to develop products and channels that investors need. ■ Responsible for the interface between the WPIC and investors (portfolio managers, buyside and sellside analysts, strategists, advisors and opinion formers) to ensure data, research and insights meet investors' needs.■ Successfully building the landscape of potential investors (past, present and potential future market participants) by exploring all investor channels through strategic mapping of specific investor groupings, firms and strategies, teams and individuals with a propensity to invest in platinum. Provide unique level of service and engagement based on 1) research requirements, 2) potential ounce allocation and 3) time horizon to invest.■ Lead the creation of the Investor Development (ID) programme identifying investors whose mandate and risk profiles are most suited to invest in platinum and development of long-term relationships. Deep focus to identify targets, evaluate and interact, track engagement, prioritise, review and measure platinum ounce ownership.■ Responsible for expanding product research offering through Platinum Perspectives (targets informed investors and opinion formers on an aspect of supply and demand) and Platinum Essentials (targets less informed investors and opinion formers on other considerations for platinum as an asset class) which is distributed globally.■ Focus on high-frequency interactions and quality contact with targeted research offering. Emphasis on 1:1 meetings, conference call participation, relationships and trust. Active feedback loop from investor interactions forms a direct input into research pipeline to address investor concerns.



Goldman Sachs Asset Management

• Financial Services

• Analyst - Global Manager Strategies

  • 2011 - 2015

  ■ The AIMS Group sits within the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs and is responsible for the selection of a diverse array of leading third party investment managers and strategies ■ Our investors have access to a broad range of open architecture solutions across all alternative investments strategies including hedge funds, private equity, traditional long-only and real assets ■ The AIMS Group manages globally-diversified programs, targeted sector-specific strategies and customised portfolios which can be accessed in a number of ways, including through new fund commitments, fund-of-fund investments, strategic partnerships, secondary-market investments, co-investments, and seed-capital investments Key Responsibilities: ■ Manager Research - evaluation of external asset managers as part of the manager selection process on behalf of institutional and private clients ■ Quantitative & Qualitative analysis of external managers across multiple asset classes including due diligence meetings with fund managers ■ Performance Attribution & Risk Analysis of funds ■ Construction of customised portfolios and multi-manager funds ■ Undertake extensive asset class research



London Irish Graduate Network (LIGN)

• Co-Founder & Director

  • Sep 2010 - Oct 2011

  ■ The London Irish Graduate Network (LIGN) was formed to help ambitious, talented and business focused Irish people build their networking platform in London ■ With our academic, professional, commercial and social events, we aim to connect Irish undergraduates, postgraduates and those working in graduate programmes ■ LIGN delivers a networking platform for young professionals and students by bringing together like minded people in a social setting. We provide discursive and interactive panel based events covering topical issues in the world of business ■ LIGN targets to help young professionals in London to secure the best possible employment opportunities by capitalising on the seeds sown by many great Irish business people who have come to this city in the past. It aims to achieve this by helping members build contacts that will span the length of their careers ■ LIGN ultimately aims to be a network which will nurture the vast amount of Irish talent that has immigrated to London, building a platform for which they can launch successful careers ■ Lastly, from a social perspective, LIGN aims at making people feel more at home in a foreign city, building friendships that will last long past the confines of an office block. It also aims at educating people on Irish culture, with a particular focus on Irish business ■ Recently, I have stepped back from the operational day to day involvement with the society but remain a close adviser and I'm still heavily involved in promoting and expanding the society to a wider audience



Merrion Capital

• United Kingdom
• Real Estate

• Assistant Fund Manager

  • 2007 - 2009

  ■ Co-managed three quantitative driven equity value funds ■ Sole responsibility for development of an in-house equity stock screening selection model & additionally developed a fundamental screening model on both UK and European stocks ■ Extensive development and implementation of portfolio construction model across funds adhering and relying on rules-based stock selection criteria ■ Completed back-testing of various investment strategies across Irish and UK stock portfolios focusing on the efficiency of systematic momentum investing



Bear Stearns Bank

• Summer Internship

  • Jun 2006 - Sep 2006

  ■ Responsible for booking swaptions, options, credit default swaps and acted as a point of contact for fixed income traders ■ Responsible for running equity swap, fixed income swap and credit default swap daily trade reports, which were analysed and communicated to senior management ■ Responsible for booking swaptions, options, credit default swaps and acted as a point of contact for fixed income traders ■ Responsible for running equity swap, fixed income swap and credit default swap daily trade reports, which were analysed and communicated to senior management



Bank of Ireland Security Services & Bank of Ireland Asset Management

• Summer Internship - Portfolio Fund Analyst

  • Jun 2005 - Aug 2005

  ■ Analysed stockbroker, fund manager investment performance ratings and commissions ■ Established performance trends of fund managers ■ Reviewed efficiency of trade transactions for stockbrokers and fund/asset managers ■ Analysed stockbroker, fund manager investment performance ratings and commissions ■ Established performance trends of fund managers ■ Reviewed efficiency of trade transactions for stockbrokers and fund/asset managers