The ACOI annual conference will take place on Tuesday, 19th November 2019 at the Conrad Hotel, Dublin. Our conference has become a must attend event for executives, board members, regulators and those working day to day in the area of compliance and is now open for booking.

We will be slightly diverting from the format of old. Our morning will consist of speeches, presentations and panel discussions. This year we will be adding a new section to our conference in the form of breakout workshops in the afternoon. Topics for the morning sessions include:

• Culture – the lessons from recent regulatory actions

• The Irish regulatory regime –  an overseas perspective

• Building an Ethically Strong Organisation

• The Evolving Role of the Compliance Officer

• Inclusion & Diversity

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Speakers Details:

Clive Kelly – President, ACOI
Clive is the current President of the Association of Compliance officers in Ireland (ACOI), the leading global compliance association, and has been involved with the association in a number of roles since its formation.
Clive has worked in International Financial services for 34 years for leading global insurers and reinsurers and has held the following roles over that time CEO, independent non-executive director, Head of Risk, Head of Compliance and Chief Underwriting Officer.
Clive is a lecturer, author & examiner at NFQ level 7-9 and in senior executive education in Risk management, Compliance, Financial Markets, Bank Directorship and Governance. He teaches on programmes for University College Dublin, Institute of Bankers, Chartered Accountants Ireland, Central Bank of Ireland, Irish Department of Finance and ACOI.
Clive speaks both nationally and internationally on a wide variety of topics such as Risk management, Compliance, Governance and Culture and has published both in industry journals and in the national press on the topic of Compliance.

Michael Kavanagh – Chief Executive, ACOI
Michael is CEO of ACOI, a Board member and chair of the audit committee of Carmichael, a member of the consultative group to the Corporate Reporting function for ESMA (European Securities Markets Authority), a council member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the Irish committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales.
Prior to that Michael was Director of DPP with KPMG Ireland, CEO of IAASA (The Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority) having previously been Head of Financial Reporting Supervision with the organisation. He established Ireland's statutory accounting enforcement function (tasked with examining whether the financial reports of listed entities comply with financial reporting standards) and oversaw the establishment of Ireland's statutory Audit Inspection regime (tasked with inspecting the quality of audit work conducted by Ireland's large audit firms) . For 12 years, he was the Irish Observer at the Corporate Reporting Council of the FRC which produces UK and Irish accounting standards. He was also Ireland's representative at ESMA's European Enforcers Co-ordination Sessions which is tasked with co-ordinating accounting enforcement across Europe having chaired a number of ESMA sub-committees.
He has represented the State and the accounting profession at various European and international fora including chairing various committees both domestically and intentionally. In the past he was also a member of the Accounting Consultative Committee of CCAB-I and chair of the CPA Institute's Financial Reporting Committee. Prior to that he was the Technical Director and headed up the practice review function at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Michael has a B. Comm degree, is a qualified accountant and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPA Ireland) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW).

Oliver Geffroy - Managing Director at Bank of America
Oliver Geffroy is a Managing Director at Bank of America and the firm’s Regional Compliance and Operational Risk Executive for the European Union and Switzerland. Based in Dublin he leads the Compliance and Operational Risk teams that cover BofA’s activities within the main hubs in Dublin and Paris and its other offices across the region.
Before he took on his current role in 2018, Oliver was the Head of EMEA Private Side Compliance in BofA’s London offices for three years. Prior to joining BofA in 2015, Oliver was Head of Compliance for EMEA at The Royal Bank of Scotland and held various senior Compliance roles at Barclays, including Head of Continental Europe and Head of Africa.
Prior to that Oliver was a Director in M&A/Corporate Finance at Dresdner Kleinwort and worked in Legal & Compliance at Credit Suisse First Boston. Admitted to the German Bar as attorney-at-law in 1998, Oliver started his career as partner in a local German law firm, specializing in commercial and criminal law, before he became a lawyer in Linklaters’ M&A/Corporate team.
Oliver studied Law in Germany with stages in Konstanz, Tübingen, Stuttgart and Zürich. He holds a law degree from Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen where he was also an assistant professor at the chair of Prof. Dr. Hans von Mangoldt.
Oliver is a member of the Executive Faculty of University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and of the Board of the UK’s Compliance Association SHCOG. He acts as Chairman of The European Compliance Conference TECC and has been a frequent speaker on regulatory and legal matters at banking industry conferences in the UK and Europe. Oliver serves as a Non-Executive Director on the board of The Politics Project, a Community Interest Company focusing on the improvement of political education for young people in the UK.

Charles Farquharson - CEO of Insight Europe
Charles is CEO of Insight Europe, the group’s EU-domiciled entity based in Dublin, a role he took on in March 2019. He originally joined the Insight group in London in January 2005 as a Director and Head of Distribution. He has held other senior management roles within the group including Head of Fund Governance and Regulation and Chief Risk Officer. Prior to joining Insight, Charles worked for Merrill Lynch Investment Management (formerly Mercury Asset Management), which he joined in 1988. He worked in a number of senior management roles there including company secretary, head of compliance and head of legal department, before being appointed as head of institutional business ex US, Australia and Japan. Charles has a BA honours degree in Law from Cambridge University and qualified as a solicitor at Simmons & Simmons before joining the financial services industry.

Ger Mitchell - Group HR Director, Permanent TSB
Ger is an experienced Commercial Leader and has held a number of senior roles in Branch banking, Intermediary banking, Regional General Management and was appointed to the Group Executive Committee (ExCo) in 2012 as Group Lending & Insurance Director. In 2015, Ger was appointed by the Board to lead the Bank through the Industry Examination of Tracker mortgages and in 2017, Ger was appointed Group HR Director.
Along with the day job, Ger is a member of the Irish Banking Culture Board and also chairs a number of Permanent TSB Group Committees, including: Corporate Social Responsibility; Crisis Management and Organisational Culture.
Ger has led the development and rollout of the Organisational Culture Programme at Permanent TSB, spearheading cultural change throughout the Bank. The culture change currently being undertaken by the Bank aims to rebuild trust and reputation with key stakeholders, in particular customers, and create a more inclusive workplace for colleagues.

Amanda Shantz - MBA Director, Trinity Business School
Amanda is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Management. Prior to joining Trinity College Dublin, Amanda held academic positions in Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. Amanda completed her doctoral degree at the University of Toronto, received her master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her undergraduate degree from McGill University. Amanda’s research interests include human resource management, employee engagement and volunteering. Amanda recently won the 2019 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize from MIT Sloan Management Review, for her co-authored paper, "Building an Ethically Strong Organisation”.

Cameron Marr
Cameron Marr is a Certified Bank Director and an active Independent Non-executive Director in the UK and Ireland for a number of Banks and financial services companies where his roles range from Company Chair to Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee. He also provides risk and business advisory services to companies in London and Ireland in the asset management and financial services support sectors.
Between 1984 and 2016 Cameron enjoyed a 32 year extensive international banking career in a number of institutions including Citibank, Banque Paribas, Fuji Bank, Credit Suisse, KBC Bank and Butterfield Bank (UK).
Cameron built and led a number of successful international first line businesses and second line functions. Cameron rose through several senior leadership positions to Executive Board roles and was a non-executive in several group companies.
As CRO and Executive Director for KBC Bank Ireland between 2011 and 2015, he built the risk management capabilities for the bank and amalgamated the risk, compliance, fraud and regulatory functions in the organization into a unified second line of defense.
In 2015 Cameron was appointed CEO of Butterfield Bank (UK) where he honed his experience with the regulators through leading successfully the only orderly wind down of a bank in the UK, under the direction of the regulators.
Since moving to Ireland in 2011 Cameron has enriched his life with an Irish wife, child and passport and membership of a golf Club where he plays golf very badly.

Lorraine Blayney - Chief Risk Officer, Northern Trust – Ireland
Lorraine is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for Northern Trust International Fund Administration Services (Ireland) and Northern Trust Fiduciary Services (Ireland Limited) since July 2018 with responsibility for Risk, Compliance and Business Continuity in Ireland. Prior to this Lorraine held the position of Chief Compliance Officer for these legal entities.
Lorraine is Chair of the respective legal entity Risk Committees and a member of the Ireland Executive Management Group.
Prior to joining Northern Trust in 2005 Lorraine worked in the Compliance function of Bank of New York in Dublin and began her compliance career in Barclays Ireland.
Lorraine is a graduate (B.A., LL.B) of the National University of Ireland, Galway and has a Masters (MSc) Degree in Compliance Management from the Association of Compliance Officers Ireland (ACOI), Institute of Banking and University College Dublin. Lorraine also joined the Board of the ACOI in January 2019.

Edel Murphy - Vodafone
Edel Murphy has over 15 years' experience in operational and transformational roles focusing on organisational efficiency and effectiveness, incorporating people management, project & change management and process improvement. Currently leading a busy risk and compliance function in the highly regulated telecommunications sector.

Rose Kennedy
Rose-Marie specialises in Irish and European financial services regulation. She advises a wide range of both domestic and international financial institutions. She specialises in the provision of advice and support to clients on all aspects of Irish and UK authorisation/licence applications, applications for Pre-Approval Controlled Functions (“PCF”), ongoing conduct and prudential regulatory compliance support and implementation of legislation and regulatory requirements. Rose-Marie provides support and guidance to clients on regulatory enforcement actions taken by the Central Bank of Ireland, industry investigations and other risk mitigation programme (“RMP”) enquiries. Rose-Marie has vast expertise in assisting clients with overall coordination and management of large-scale regulatory remediation projects.
Prior to joining Deloitte, Rose-Marie worked for one of Ireland’s Top Banks where she held various positions across Internal Audit, Compliance and Regulatory Affairs functions, specialising in recent years in regulatory liaison and prudential regulatory change.
Rose-Marie is Chair of the Association of Compliance Officers (“ACOI”) Prudential Regulation & Governance Working Group, member of the ACOI Technical Committee and has also served as the Chair of the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland Internal Governance Working Group. Rose-Marie is a Chartered Accountant (“ACA”) and holds a Bachelor degree in Commerce from UCD. She also holds a Diploma in Compliance from the Institute of Bankers and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting with Chartered Accountants of Ireland.

Jason Sherlock - DCU Educational Trust team
Jason Sherlock joined the DCU Educational Trust team as an Associate Director in March 2018. Since August 2019, he has undertaken the role of Director of Development for DCU Educational Trust. As Director of Development, Jason is responsible for developing and implementing the Trust’s overall fundraising strategy and is inspired by DCU’s mission to transform lives through education, research, innovation and engagement.
Through his involvement in Irish sport, Jason is a well-known sporting personality nationally. As a player, Jason represented Ireland in soccer and basketball and also played for the Dublin Senior Football Team for 15 seasons. He is currently a selector with Dublin’s All-Ireland winning Senior Football Team. Jason has over 15 years’ experience in Sales and Business Development in the corporate sector. He graduated with an Executive MBA from DCU in 2014.

Tom O’Connor CDPO, FCOI – HedgeServ
Tom has over fourteen years of experience working in Financial Services regulation and Compliance across banking, payments and fund administration, both in Ireland and overseas.
Tom is currently Head of Compliance for HedgeServ Limited, a leading independent fund administration services provider, where he is responsible for leading the Compliance agenda and overseeing implementation of the Compliance framework.
Prior to joining HedgeServ Limited, Tom worked as a Compliance Specialist with EY (formerly ‘Ernst & Young’) in both Dublin and London, supporting clients, including Systemically Important Financial Institutions, in enhancing their Compliance and Risk frameworks, particularly in the areas of Financial Crime Prevention and Risk Assessment.
Prior to that, Tom worked for the Banking & Payments Federation of Ireland where he was responsible for the analysis and industry responses to regulatory and legislative consultations, and for the delivery of mortgage market publications.

Ian Duffy – Arthur Cox
Ian is a senior associate in the Technology and Innovation Group in Arthur Cox. He specialises in advising clients on data protection, information technology, e-commerce, outsourcing and commercial contracts. His clients include large multinational corporations, technology companies, financial institutions and state-owned entities. Ian regularly publishes articles on data protection, information technology and outsourcing and frequently presents to clients on these topics.

Alan Moore – Senior Advisor, Trilateral Research
Alan is a sitting member of the ACOI’s Data Protection Working Group and a Senior Advisor in Trilateral Research’s data protection consultancy arm. With more than 15 years’ experience in data assurance and risk management, Alan has worked with a diverse client base including charities, multi-nationals, public sector and financial organisations.

Flavien Corolleur
Flavien Corolleur is a French Corporate Counsel within SS&C and part of SS&C Group Data Protection Office, and has over 19 years experience in the asset management industry with particular interest and expertise in EU and non-EU data protection law. Certified Data Protection Officer, Flavien Corolleur is a member of the AIMA Data Privacy Working Group and ACOI Data Protection and Information Security and Working Group. Author of the article “Managing compliance with multiple data protection regimes: forthcoming new requirements in the Cayman Islands“ published in the Irish Compliance Quarterly (ICQ) Summer 2019 Edition, Flavien Corolleur also spoke at various data protection events to include the AIMA Fund Manager GDPR Briefing hosted by SS&C in London in April 2018. Mr Corolleur is also an occasional lecturer in French law since 2000.

Kathy Jacobs
Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London followed by a number of years working as a forensic accountant in the public and private sectors, Kathy returned to Ireland in 2000 and commenced a career in Regulatory Compliance in KBC Group.
She achieved the LCOI qualification in 2006 and spent a further 7 years at EBS Building Society working in all areas including Money Laundering, Data Protection and Conduct of Business.
Kathy set up and chaired the ACOI’s Data Protection Committee in 2009 and joined the Council of ACOI in January 2012 and is currently on the Membership Committee.

Jason Palmer
Jason has over 28 years of experience in the financial services industry, he is currently Senior Compliance Officer for Hewlett-Packard International Bank plc. Previously he has held a compliance management role in Rabobank, providing compliance support to the retail/wholesale banking/loan management operations and senior compliance/anti money laundering roles in the Dublin based international life assurance/reinsurance operations of both AXA and HSBC.
Jason joined the Council of ACOI in January 2013. As such, he is a compliance professional who understands the need to be able to balance the adherence to legal and regulatory requirements whilst meeting the practical business needs. A positive team player who is a confident and assertive individual committed to customer care and excellence of service. He holds the LCOI Professional Diploma in Compliance, Joint Financial Services Diploma and Professional Certificate in Financial Crime Prevention accredited by University College Dublin.

Rachel Woolley
Rachel has over 10 years’ experience in the Financial Services industry having worked primarily in the funds industry and retail banking. She has a strong background in regulatory compliance, particularly in the areas of anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing (AML/CTF).
Rachel holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Applied Accounting from the Oxford Brookes University and is an ACCA Affiliate.
Rachel currently holds four professional designations: Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Licentiate of the Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland (LCOI), Certified Financial Crime Prevention Practitioner (CFCPP) and Certified Data Protection Officer (CDPO).

Shane Martin
Shane Martin is an Of Counsel based in Walkers' Ireland office. He has significant experience in regulatory risk and compliance in financial services across the banking, funds, asset management, payment services and credit union sectors. Prior to joining Walkers, Shane worked for a number of years for the Central Bank of Ireland where he managed a specialist anti-money laundering supervision team. Drawing on his experience as a regulator, Shane provides practical and informed advice on all regulatory compliance matters with particular expertise in authorisation and licensing issues, regulatory enforcement, data privacy, financial crime and international financial sanctions. Shane is a former chair of the Private Sector Consultative Forum on AML.