Carin Bryans
Managing Director, J.P. Morgan
Carin is Senior Country Officer & CEO J.P. Morgan Bank Ireland. As Senior Country Officer for J.P. Morgan Chase in Ireland, Carin oversees J.P. Morgan’s businesses. In Ireland, JPMorgan provides end to end services to Irish domiciled funds and also acts as the EMEA Operational Centre of Excellence for all Alternative Investment Funds. Through its bank subsidiary, JPMorgan provides cash management services to institutional, multi-national and corporate clients based in Ireland. Ireland is also the European hub for JPMorgan Merchant Services payments and merchant acquiring business. Carin also has responsibility for JPMorgan’s businesses in the Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey). Carin received an Undergraduate degree from The University of Texas at Austin, spent a year working in France for Zenith Data Systems, and returned to Ireland in 1990 to take up a position at Chase Manhattan Bank. Since then, she has held a wide variety of roles at the firm, and also received an MBA from The Michael Smurfit Business School. Carin currently Chairs the IFSC Funds Group, served from 2015-2018 on the IFS 2020 Advisory Group, and was the Chairman of the Irish Funds Industry Association for 2010/2011. Carin holds non-executive director positions at the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland, and also the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA), the largest animal welfare society in Ireland.
Eimear Cowhey
Independent Director
Eimear has over 30 years' experience in the offshore funds industry and currently as a non-executive independent chairman, director and committee member of various investment fund and management boards in Ireland, England and Luxembourg. From 1999 to 2006 she held various board and executive positions within the Pioneer Amundi Group, including Head of Legal and Compliance and Head of Product Development. From 1992 to 1999 she held various executive positions within Invesco Asset Management, including Managing Director, Global Fund Director and Head Legal Counsel. Eimear is a qualified Irish lawyer with a Diploma in Accounting and Finance, Diploma in Company Direction (IoD), Certificate in Financial Services Law and is in the course of achieving Chartered Director status from the IoD (London). Eimear was a member of the Committee on Collective Investment Governance (CCIG) which was established by the Central Bank of Ireland in December 2013 and which issued an expert report in July 2014 on recommendations for good governance practice for investment funds. She is a former Council member and past Chairman of Irish Funds and is a former member of the IFSC Funds Group a joint government/industry group to advise the government of investment fund related matters. She is a founder and current Chairperson of basis.point which is the Irish investment fund industry charity focused on alleviating poverty through education, particularly among the youth of Ireland.
Ros O'Shea
Independent Director
Ros is a highly experienced executive with a career spanning almost 20 years working with the Board and Executive of two of Ireland’s largest and most-respected companies: CRH plc, where she was Head of Group Compliance & Ethics, and Smurfit Kappa Group plc. She is a partner in Acorn Governance Solutions, a consulting firm providing advice and leadership training in governance, culture, risk, compliance and business integrity and she lectures on these topics with UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School and the Institute of Directors. Ros is also a member of the board and audit and risk committees of Bank of Montreal (Ireland) plc, and sits on the board of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and Pieta House. She has first class honours business and masters degrees from UCD, a professional diploma in Corporate Governance from UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School, is an associate of the Institute of Tax and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, having trained with PwC. She also completed the Master Trainer programme at the Irish Management Institute is a graduate of the “Value Creation through Effective Boards” programme at Harvard Business School and is a Certified Bank Director, as designated by the Institute of Banking. Furthermore, Ros is author of the book “Leading with Integrity – a Practical Guide to Business Ethics”, and is a regular contributor to news and print media on related topics.
Catherine Woods
Independent Director
Catherine has over 30 years’ experience in financial services, as well as significant governance experience. Her executive career was with JP Morgan in the City of London, specialising in European Financial Institutions. She is a former Vice President and Head of the JP Morgan European Banks Equity Research Team, where her mandates included the recapitalisation of Lloyds’ of London and the re-privatisation of Scandinavian banks. She currently holds a number of non-executive directorships including Deputy Chairman of AIB Group plc, Chairman of Beazley Insurance DAC and is a Director of AIB Mortgage Bank, EBS DAC and Beazley plc. She was previously appointed by the Irish Government to the Electronic Communications Appeals Panel and the Adjudication Panel to oversee the rollout of the National Broadband scheme. Catherine is a former Chairman of EBS DAC and former director of An Post. She holds a First Class Honours Economics Degree from Trinity College Dublin and a Chartered Director Diploma with distinction.
Anne Keys
Joint Managing Partner, The Panel
Anne is Joint Managing Partner & Brexit Lead, The Panel – Search & Selection Anne joined The Panel in 1997, was promoted to Director in 2000 and Joint Managing Partner in 2010. She set up their international division, placing financial services staff and accountants in the UK, Luxembourg, Jersey, Guernsey, Bermuda, USA, Cayman Islands and further afield. Anne leads The Panel’s executive search areas in Financial Services specifically in the areas of Funds and Fund Management. With over twenty years’ in Executive Recruitment experience, Anne is uniquely placed to assist in the hiring of suitable executives, board members and Independent Non-Executive Directors. Anne is one of the most highly networked recruitment professionals in the Irish market. She has focused on building long lasting relationships with clients and candidates during her time in The Panel. Anne is also the Brexit Lead in The Panel. She is currently working closely with the IDA on assisting global clients establish their new operations in Ireland following Brexit. Irish and overseas market and working with leading government bodies to attract new start-ups in Ireland.
