Key Skills/USP

• Business Management
• Financial Modelling and Business Planning
• Restructuring & Rightsizing
• Mentoring of Start Up Businesses.
• Product & Service Costing.
• ERP Selection & Implementation.

Qualifications

• Fellowship of Chartered Accountants Ireland (2000)
• Fellowship of Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (2000)
• Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Waterford Institute of Technology (1994)
• Diploma in International Financial Reporting Standards (Distinction 2005).

Memberships

• Tipperary LEO Evaluation & Approvals Committee & Mentor Panel.
• InterTradeIreland Brexit Advisory, Emergency Business Solutions, Elevate and Acumen Consultant Panels.
• Invest NI Covid 19 Finance Panel.
• Enterprise Ireland Covid 19 Finance Panel.
• Failte Ireland Mentor Panel.

Sectoral Experience

• Construction
• Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Meat Processing
• Medical
• Fashion Wholesale & Retail
• Wine Wholesale & Retail
• Agriculture
• Charity

Key Achievements

• I mentored Pressidect which was a start up Business to the final of the EI Student Entrepreneur Competition 2020 (won Cruickshank High Achieving Merit Award).
• Restructured a manufacturing Business with a Turnover of €38m including redesign and upgrading of the factory costing system. Increased net profits of the manufacturing division by circa 2% (circa €240k).