Team

Specialist Speakers

Our Specialist experts deliver the financial and health modules.

Specialist Speakers

Our carefully designed course programmes are given by our professional coaches and industry experts.

Our Specialist Speakers provide the financial and health modules.

We have teams based throughout Ireland to allow us deliver our quality service in locations nationwide.

Paul Keogh
Course Specialist – Finance

Paul Keogh

Paul has more than 38 years’ corporate pensions experience in Dublin and London as a Senior Pensions Consultant, the last 14 years most recently with Aon.
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Kevin O'Neil
Course Specialist – Finance

Kevin O'Neil

Kevin is a Qualified Financial Advisor (QFA) and holds a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning (Grad. Dip.), a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation and a Masters in Financial Services (MSc).
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Catherine Desmond
Course Specialist – Finance

Catherine Desmond

Catherine is a Senior Tax Manager in PwC Cork.
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Tom Collins
Course Specialist – Finance

Tom Collins

Tom Collins lectures in International Tax and Advanced Tax in the BA (Hons.) in Applied Taxation and in Wealth management in the M Sc Computational Finance) at the National Centre for Taxation Studies, University of Limerick.
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Gabriel McCarthy
Course Specialist – Finance

Gabriel McCarthy

Gabriel is a Qualified Financial Advisor with more than 30 years' experience within the financial services industry.
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Hugh Johnson
Course Specialist – Finance

Hugh Johnson

Hugh has worked for more than 30 years in the banking and financial sector. Fifteen of these years were in wealth management.
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Sarah Keogh
Course Specialist – Healthy Lifestyle

Sarah Keogh

Sarah Keogh, MSc, BSc, MINDI, has a degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from Trinity College.
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Aisling Snedker
Course Specialist – Healthy Lifestyle

Aisling Snedker

Aisling holds a Bsc hons in Home Economics, PGDip Nutrition and Dietetics, PGCert in Sport and Exercise nutrition and FAETC. She has been qualified as a clinical dietitian for 20 years.
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Niamh O'Connor
Course Specialist – Healthy Lifestyle

Niamh O'Connor

Niamh O’Connor RD, BSc (Hons), Dip (Hons), MINDI is an honours graduate of Trinity College and the Technological University Dublin.
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Caoimhe McDonald
Course Specialist – Healthy Lifestyle

Caoimhe McDonald

Caoimhe graduated with a BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics from Trinity College in 2008
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Dr. David Boylan
Course Specialist – Healthy Lifestyle

Dr. David Boylan

David is a GP in Limerick who has been a representative on the Mid-Western GP Unit for the past six years.
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John O'Connell
Course Specialist - Finance

John O'Connell

John is an actuary who has worked in the pension and investment areas for 30 years.
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Eimear Barry
Course Specialist – Mental health

Eimear Barry

Eimear Barry is a Psychologist and consultant who has been working in the area of learning and development for many years. Eimear’s specialist areas include, leadership development, workplace mental health and psychological wellbeing in retirement. Prior to becoming a consultant Eimear worked as head of Learning& Development for JP Morgan European Mutual Fund Services. Eimear holds a degree in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology. She is a member of the British Psychological Society. A fellow of the IITD and a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD.
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Tony Doyle
Course Specialist – Finance

Tony Doyle

Tony retired from the position as Head of Retirement Planning for AIB Private Wealth / Private Banking, in December2021. Prior to this position he was Head of Staff Pensions for AIB Group, where he managed the in- house administration of the AIB schemes whilst also acting as company secretary to the four Pension Trustee Boards, involving both Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution schemes, in Ireland and the UK. Tony has significant in-depth experience in group pensions (both segregated and insured schemes), retail individual pensions and bespoke pensions including small, self-administered schemes. In his early years he was Pensions Development Manager for Hibernian Life moving from therein the mid 90’s to bancassurance Ark Life AIB.
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