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50Celebrating the Irish in the Finance Industry

Brendan McDonagh CEO HSBC North America Holdings Inc., represents the new “Global Irish” who are joining the ranks of corporate America in increasing numbers.

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WAL L STREET50 KEYNOTE SPEAKER The Global Irishman HSBC’s Brendan ust six months after billion in bad debt as a result of the crisis, assuming his job as head but under McDonagh’s management the McDonagh of HSBC Finance in worst of the crisis now seems over. North America, Brendan The subprime segment is but a very is a new McDonagh volunteered to small part of the global HSBC brand. appear before Congress, Forbes magazine recently rated HSBC in March 2007, to address Holdings number one in its Global 200 breed of J the growing subprime ranking of companies worldwide. mortgage-lending crisis. The banking behemoth earned the dis- international It was a typical move by the 49-year- tinction by showing a phenomenal annu- old Irishman who has become known al 26 percent growth in revenues, by throughout his career for a straightfor- having 10,000 offices worldwide in 83 Irishman. ward type of management, which countries, and by having $2.3 trillion in addresses problems head on. assets. BY NIALL O’DOWD Like many other banking leaders, HSBC is the little foreign bank that McDonagh could have tried to duck and could. It started in Hong Kong in 1865 dive on the issue and refuse to appear at with just two branches, one in Hong the televised hearings, but that was not Kong and one in Shanghai, capitalizing his way. Senate Banking Chairman Chris on the trade winds that were blowing Dodd was certainly appreciative. strongly between the Chinese capital and “We take the situation very seriously the then crown colony. and we’re taking strong steps to correct At a time when the world center of problems,” McDonagh told the legisla- banking was London, HSBC’s incredible tors, and his bank directly proceeded to growth since their modest colonial do that, seeking to ensure above all that beginnings has been staggering. a way was found for homeowners to As CEO of HSBC North America (the keep their properties. “Otherwise every- holding company for all of HSBC’s U.S. one loses,” McDonagh notes. and Canadian businesses; the company HSBC had gotten caught up in the sub serves nearly 68 million customers), prime crisis after it purchased McDonagh has no doubt that the bank Household Finance in 2003, before has gone from strength to strength PHOTOGRAPH BY: McDonagh took the top job. because of its global reach. KIT DE FEVER Last year, the company wrote off $11.7 In fact, the Dublin native embodies

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the global nature of a bank that has man- and business ties on several continents. his wife. The newlyweds set out for aged to bestride the world. “A lot of us at HSBC have worked in Oman, McDonagh’s next posting, where McDonagh’s stellar career in banking many countries, and that richness of he had to adjust to the life style of the was foreordained from an early age. Born experience means that you have a deeper Middle East after the years in South Asia. in 1958 on Dublin’s Northside, as understanding, a global understanding, His globetrotting pace increased when a kid he showed an aptitude for numbers, how things work in, and between, differ- he was sent to Tokyo after Oman. which came in handy in the family ent countries,” McDonagh explained in He enjoyed his time in Tokyo enor- business. our interview, which took place at mously. It was the first of two postings in His father was a butcher who supplied HSBC’s New York headquarters on Fifth Japan Ð the second came a few years meat to the Guinness Brewery and the Avenue. “The foundation for us [HSBC] later, when he was sent to Kobe. Rotunda Hospital. is free trade. Globalization, at the end of In Kobe, McDonagh’s Irish roots and “What we did in those days, because the day, is good for everybody,” he says. philanthropic leanings came into play. my father had a cash business, we would McDonagh, who is now based at He helped set up the Irish Network of HSBC headquarters in the Chicago Japan which was an organization of suburb of Mettawa, Illinois, worked younger Irish who were living in Japan. with several developing nations “Actually, three of us set up a St. Patrick’s Night function in Kobe,” he recalls. “We got various people to spon- COURTESY HSBC COURTESY LEFT: Fishing in Wisconsin with lifelong friend Padraic sor Ð to buy the Guinness and whatever. O’Beirn of Dublin. We were planning to run it on the fly, but people came from all over Ð we were BELOW: April 30, 2008: surprised by the numbers. We made a Celebrating the opening of handsome profit and found, through a HSBC North America’s new headquarters in the Chicago local priest, a Korean orphanage that suburb of Mettawa, Illinois, needed support. There’s a large Korean with Group Chairman Stephen population in Japan and they, largely, are Green and Group Chief Executive less well-off. The event became so suc- Michael Geoghegan of parent company HSBC Holdings plc. cessful that it became an annual affair. I P

bring the cash home and I ran a ledger for him and then we would cash checks for our neighbors who were in the check busi- ness and needed to pay salaries and wages. So we ran a bank out of the dining room in the evening time,” McDonagh recalls. It was no surprise when McDonagh took the economics and accounting route and went to Trinity College Dublin to PHOTO: JASMIN SHAH, HSBC COURTESY study business and finance. Once he qualified and anxious to see the world, he sent his résumé out to sev- eral international banks and waited. It was 1979 and jobs were not plentiful in Ireland in the pre-Celtic Tiger era. The best offer was from a vaguely exotic sounding company known as the early in his career. think the orphanage is still wondering Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in “In those days we were headquartered who these crazy Irish people were who London. His parents were surprised. in Asia and most of our operations were were dropping money off with them “They were a little shocked when they in the Far East and Middle East,” he once a year.” realized it was based in the Far East and I explains. In 1993, McDonagh, on an upward wasn’t just going over to London for a McDonagh was in Guam for six trajectory, was transferred to London, job,” McDonagh remembers with a smile. months. Then he was sent to Brunei, in thus ending his Asia sojourn. He says Thus began the journey from butcher’s Southeast Asia. His first managerial that he learned “cultural sensitivity” dur- boy to HSBC’s top job in America. position followed, in Hong Kong. ing his time overseas. “You value diver- McDonagh now oversees one of the top It was quite an experience. sity, you value, and you recognize, the 10 financial services organizations in the “We had a very large cash department. richness that each people can bring.” United States, with assets totaling $557 It was like mini Fort Knox, and I was the Back in London, he was soon on the billion and over 40,000 employees. operations manager.” move again, taking over the company’s The journey to the top was one that Soon after arriving in Brunei, offshore operations in the Channel would include living in eight different McDonagh met Kenane, an English Islands before going back to London and countries and developing deep cultural nurse and midwife, who would become joining the global headquarters staff.

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He made it to head of strategy there If you’ve before the call to come to the U.S. came. “ He was sent over to run the retail and got good ideas commercial banking side of the U.S. coming from business, which was based in Buffalo, New York. Soon he was made COO of your team, try the banking operation. Then HSBC acquired Household not to stop Finance, one of the largest subprime them.Your job mortgage lenders, but also one of America’s largest credit card companies. is to manage When the company began suffering the bright under the subprime mortgage deluge, the search for a topnotch executive ended at people McDonagh’s desk. around you McDonagh moved to Chicago to become CEO of HSBC Finance and to and be deal with the subprime crisis, which he comfortable has done successfully. In February this year, he was promot- and not be ed to CEO of HSBC North America threatened Holdings Inc., which oversees both HSBC Finance and HSBC Bank. by them. By now the McDonagh management ” approach was tried and tested. He expresses it this way: “If you’ve got good ideas coming from your team, try not to stop them. Your job is to manage the bright people

around you and to be comfortable and KIT DE FEVER PHOTO: not be threatened by them. And if you can trust them, and you think they have a good idea, let them go for it.” Brendan McDonagh at HSBC New York He is an innovator too. He and the headquarters on Fifth Avenue. bank leadership have focused on green technology and making the bank a car- bon neutral one globally. He speaks with economic times ahead, and McDonagh Alison is in school. The couple’s son, pride of how all the office buildings in himself sees the U.S. economy as being Rory, following in his father’s footsteps, HSBC will eventually conform to the at a critical crossroads. is studying economics at Trinity College, highest green standards. Their new head- “I believe that parts of America are Dublin. quarters outside Chicago was recently already in recession, but it won’t be that McDonagh, who sees the Irish economy featured in the New York Times because deep and it won’t be that long,” he says, as now going through a difficult phase of its green focus. adding reassuringly, “The American after the heady days of the Celtic Tiger, It would seem counterintuitive for a economy is very resilient.” believes a highly educated work force, bank chief executive to focus so intently Ireland, always close to McDonagh’s preferably one that is flexible and multilin- on this issue, but McDonagh is a new heart, has changed enormously since he gual, can help Ireland find that “sweet breed of manager who realizes that green left, and he is glad for that. “It has become spot” in areas such as financial services, technology benefits everyone, as does far more multicultural, which is a good and keep the economy turning over. good employee relations, another area he thing. For decades, the world took the His own accomplishment embodies that spends considerable time on. Irish in, and perhaps it’s our turn to take very successful aspect of the new Ireland Ð When the subprime mortgage crisis other people in. We owe them that. We are its ability to compete globally. As one of hit, McDonagh worked hard to reassure a very wealthy nation now, and we have the first generation of the new “Global his work force and deal with the problem to start to help others,” he says. Irishmen,” Brendan McDonagh is an head on. McDonagh does his part. He is example of how much has changed since “One of the first things I did was to go involved with The American Ireland the days when the Irish left on Famine on the road. There are close to 3000 Fund, a philanthropic organization which ships and were rarely heard from again. managers around the country, and I spent supports cultural and educational groups He is living the dream of generations six weeks just talking to them. in Ireland, and also, through Enterprise of Irish to better themselves abroad. Explaining, ‘This is the problem, this is Ireland, he serves as an advisor for new Except in his case, he is proving it with the size of it, this is what we’re going to Irish companies seeking to enter the U.S. one of the world’s truly global compa- do. You’re over here, look after our market. His wife, Kenane, meantime, is nies. With their combined global visions customers and meet our plan.’” involved in charitable organizations in HSBC and McDonagh seem right for Many observers are predicting hard the Chicago area, where their daughter each other. IA

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WAL L STREET50 John Brown Merrill Lynch John Byrne Erin Callan John J. Brown is Head of Global Markets & Bank of America Lehman Brothers Investment Banking Services (GMIS), Americas. As the Regulatory Relations Erin Callan is a powerhouse In this role, he manages all institutional operations Executive for Bank of America, in the investment banking divi- for Merrill Lynch for the Americas. From 2001 to John J. Byrne coordinates sion of Lehman Brothers where 2007, his responsibilities at Merrill Lynch includ- relationships with federal regula- she served as CFO from ed the Prime Broker and Swaps business, which tors, analyzes regulatory propos- September 2007 through June during that time saw an increase from $75 billion als and identifies emerging 2008. in assets to $200 billion. Prior to his time at GMIS, Brown headed regulatory risks. Before joining Lehman Convertible Securities at Merrill Lynch for five years. His over 25 Byrne joined Bank of America Brothers, Callan was an associ- years of experience in global markets has also included time as head in 2005 as senior vice president ate at the law firm of Simpson, of Convertible Securities for UBS and SG Cowen. Brown graduated for AML Strategies. The Thatcher & Bartlett in New from St. John’s University in New York and holds a Series 3, 7, 24, company has an affiliate in York, specializing in corporate 55, 63. He finds time to serve as a board member for Tuesday’s Dublin called taxation. For the past few years, Children, an organization which aims at providing programs Banc of America Callan has been a member of the designed to help family members of victims of 9/11. Brown is a first- Ireland Leasing investment bank’s Senior Client generation Irish-American. His father hailed from County Mayo and Co., Ltd. Council. She is a multi-year his mother from County Wexford. Brown is married with five chil- Byrne, who recipient of the Chairman’s dren. received the Award for Client Service and American President’s Corporate Bankers Citizenship Award, a senior Charles Carey Christopher Association Distinguished leader of WILL (the women’s CME Group Inc. Condron Service Award in 2006, earned network at Lehman Brothers) Charles P. Carey is Vice his BA from Marquette and has been honored by the AXA Financial University and a law degree Women’s Bond Club as its 2006 Chairman of CME Group. Christopher “Kip” Condron is Previously, he was Chairman of from George Mason. He is a Merit Award Winner. President and CEO of AXA member of the bar in both the Callan graduated magna cum the Chicago Board of Trade Financial, Inc., and a member of (CBOT) which merged with District of Columbia and laude from the AXA Group Pennsylvania. Harvard in CME in July 2007, creating a Management new company, CME Group Inc., A second-generation 1987, where Board. He Irish-American, Byrne’s father’s she earned a a CME/Chicago Board of Trade joined AXA in Company. Carey received a family hailed from counties BA. She also 2001, immedi- Galway and Carlow, while his holds a JD from B.A. in business administration ately following from Western Illinois University. mother’s family have roots in New York his roles as counties Sligo and Galway. University He served on the CBOT board President and of directors in various roles, He says that his appreciation School of Law, 1990. COO of the Mellon Financial for the importance of A third-generation Irish- including Vice Chairman, First Corporation and Chairman and Vice Chairman and Full participating in the political American, Callan traces her CEO of the Dreyfus Corporation. process Ð a keystone of Irish father’s family to County Member Director. An independ- Condron began his career at ent futures trad- culture in the U.S. Ð stems Roscommon and her mother’s to C.S. McKee and Co. before from several Irish role models, County Donegal. A New York er, Carey forming his own financial plan- became a mem- including his father. City native, she is married and ning firm. owns three dogs. ber of CBOT in In 1989, Condron joined The 1978 and is a Boston Company, now Mellon partner in the Private Asset Management, firm Henning where he was named executive Tom Connolly and Carey. vice president. In 1995, he took Carey has received a number Goldman & Sachs Co. over responsibility for the As Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co., of civic, industry and communi- Dreyfus Corporation. ty service awards. Most recently, Tom Connolly heads the Leveraged Finance team Condron received his bache- as well as the High Yield and Bank Loan Capital he was presented with the lor’s degree in business from the Western Illinois University markets businesses. He is a member of the firm’s University of Scranton. He is Firmwide Capital Committee, Mezzanine Distinguished Alumni Award. Vice Chairman of the Financial Carey is also President of the Investment Committee and Allocation Committee. Services Roundtable and serves In 1989, Connolly received a BA from Union College. He Chicagoland Sports Hall of on its board of directors. He is Fame, an organization that is worked for Bankers Trust Company for six years before joining also the director and treasurer of Goldman Sachs in 1996. Prior to his current position, Connolly very active in providing scholar- The American Ireland Fund, and ships for underprivileged worked in High Yield Capital Markets in New York and was head of a trustee on the board of the European High Yield business and co-head of European Leveraged youths. Carey’s great-grandfa- University of Scranton. ther Simon Carey immigrated to Finance from 1998 to 2002. He was named Managing Director in Married with three children, 1999 and partner in 2004. Connolly is also a board member of Youth Chicago from County Clare and Condron is a third-generation married Roscommon-native I.N.C., a group dedicated to guiding nonprofit groups for children. Irish-American with roots in A Bronx native, Connolly is married with three children. He is first- Mary O’Brien. On his mother’s counties Donegal and Cork. side, Carey traces his roots back generation Irish-American. His father John was born in County to Monaghan. He is married with Monaghan and is the proprietor of the popular midtown pub and three sons. restaurant Connolly’s; his mother Mary hails from County Mayo.

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WAL L STREET50 Anthony Conroy Noreen Culhane Hillary Cullen The Bank of America N Y Stock Exchange UBS Private Wealth Management Anthony Conroy is a As Executive Vice President Hillary Cullen joined UBS Financial Services Managing Director and Head for the New York Stock in 1998 through its predecessor firm Paine Webber Trader for BNY ConvergEx Exchange’s Global Corporate and currently works as the Vice President of Execution Solutions LLC, a Group, Noreen Culhane manages Investments at UBS. She is a member of the member of BNY ConvergEx Business Development, Client Sage/Swaser Group in the Private Wealth Group. He oversees broker- Service, Marketing, Sales Management office at UBS and holds the Private Wealth Advisor assisted trading and is responsi- Support, and the Initial Public designation. ble for the coordination and Offering process and Structured Cullen graduated from Wheaton College with a B.A. in deployment of customized trad- Products for the Exchange’s Mathematics. She is a former Associate Director of international sales ing solutions designed to meet business worldwide. for International Strategy & Investments (ISI), a leading macroeco- clients’ investment strategies. A first-generation Irish- nomic research firm. She started her career as a portfolio assistant at A member of American with roots in County Morris & McVeigh, LLP, a trust and estate law firm. Cullen then the senior man- Kerry, Culhane believes that worked for the Archdiocese of New York with charitable fund-raising agement team of strong relationships founded on and development. She is member of the board of advisors for BNY ConvergEx mutual trust and respect are Cathedral High School in New York and is a member of The American Execution essential to economic growth Ireland Fund. Cullen is third-generation Irish-American. Her father’s Solutions, and peace and that Ireland and family hails from Blackwater, County Wexford and her mother’s Conroy, who has the U.S. should lead the way and family from County Clare. Her Irish heritage gives her pride in where more than 20 be a model for others. she comes from, in her family and her faith. years of direct investment and A native New Yorker, Culhane trading experience, began his obtained an undergraduate career as a Vice President and degree from the College of Noel B. Donohoe Craig Donohue Sales Trader at Shearson Mount St. Vincent, where she Merrill Lynch CME Group Inc. Lehman Brothers. Prior to join- serves on the board, and a In January 2008, Noel B. Craig Donohue has served as ing BNY ConvergEx Group, graduate degree in education Donohoe was named co-chief Chief Executive Officer and a Conroy served as a head trader from the College risk officer of Merrill Lynch. director of the and portfolio manager for of New Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, board of CME Merrill Lynch Investment Rochelle. She Donohoe, who has more than 20 Group since Management’s hedge fund unit. also completed years of risk management expe- July 2007. Prior An active member in the secu- the Advanced rience in the financial services to his current rities industries’ Wall Street Management industry, was chief operating position, Committee for St. Jude’s Program at officer and a partner of Dune Donohue served Children’s Hospital, Conroy is a Harvard. She Capital Management, working CME for years third-generation Irish-American serves on the Operations with risk management, finance, in a variety of roles, among who traces his roots on his Committee for the NYSE and the investor reporting and opera- them CEO of CME Holdings. In father’s side to County Clare, Fund Raising Board of the tions. Before Dune Capital addition to serving on CME’s and is very proud of his Irish Borough of Manhattan Management, he was with Board of Directors, Donohue is heritage. A graduate of St. John’s Community College. She is a Goldman Sachs, where he was a Director of FXMarketSpace University, where he received board member of the Marco Polo head of and the Brazilian Mercantile & his BS in Finance, he is married Network, and a member of the Firmwide Risk Futures Exchange S.A. with five children. Economic Club of New York. and responsible (BM&F). for global mar- After receiving a BA from ket risk across Drake University in 1983, David Dempsey all the trading Donohue earned a Juris and private equi- Doctor from John Marshall Bentley Associates L.P. ty businesses. Law School in 1987, a Master David Dempsey, who has over 28 years of experi- Donohoe of Laws degree in Financial ence as an international investment banker specializ- graduated with a Bachelor of Services Regulation from IIT ing in private equity, mergers and acquisitions, is a Commerce from University Chicago-Kent College in 1989, Managing Director at Bentley Associates L.P. in New College Dublin, and is a fellow and a Master of Management York. Prior to joining Bentley, Dempsey worked with of the Institute of Chartered degree from Northwestern a number of banks in New York and London, on the merger and acquisi- Accountants in Ireland. University in 1995. tion and corporate finance sides and also with a major management con- Born in Monaghan, he makes Donohue, who is Chairman of sulting firm. He began his career at the Chase Bank in London after com- a point to travel back to Ireland the Board of the National pleting his term as Secretary General of AIESEC International in for at least two weeks each sum- Council on Economic Education Brussels, and also serves as the director of The New Ireland Fund, Inc., a mer. Donohoe believes his Irish (NCEE), a nonprofit organiza- closed-end diversified investment company with 80 percent of its assets in upbringing has played an impor- tion, is a third-generation a portfolio of Irish securities. He is an Advisory Board member for the tant part in his life, allowing him Irish-American with roots in Pennell Venture Partners Marathon Fund L.P., a private equity fund, and is to look on the brighter side of County Cork. He lives in also the founder of the China Investment Group, LLC. Dempsey grew up issues, and to use humor as a Northbrook, Illinois, with his in Dublin and earned a Bachelor of Commerce from University way of breaking down barriers. wife and their three children. College Dublin and his MBA from Fordham University. He has served as a Visiting Professional at New York University, is a commercial pilot and Master Flight Instructor in his spare time, and lives in New York City with his wife Deborah and their daughter.

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WAL L STREET50 John Duffy • KBW Inc Terrence Duffy Bryan T. Durkin In 2001, John Duffy was named Chairman and CME Group Inc. CME Group Inc. CEO of Keefe, Bruyette &Woods, Inc., a firm that Terrence A. Duffy has served Bryan T. Durkin has served as he has been with for more than 28 years. He had as Executive Chairman of CME Managing Director and Chief served as the President and Co-CEO since July Group since July 2007. He was Operating Officer of CME Group 1999. In the nine years previous, Duffy was the Vice Chairman of the Board of Inc. since July 2007. He previ- executive vice-president of the Investment CME Holdings Inc. from its for- ously held a variety of leadership Banking Department within the firm. mation in August 2001 and of roles with Chicago Board of Duffy’s prior employment was with Standard & the Board of CME from 1998 to Trade from 1982 to 2007, most Poor’s Corporation as vice president. After attending the City College April 2002. In 2002, Duffy was recently as Executive Vice of New York, where he earned his BA in economics, Duffy received appointed by President Bush to President and Chief Operating his MBA from Bernard Baruch College Graduate Program of the serve on a National Saver Officer. He also served as City University of New York. Duffy is active on the board of trustees Summit on Chairman of the Joint of the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University Retirement Compliance Committee for all College, Dublin. He also serves as the chairman of the Investment Savings. The U.S. futures exchanges and repre- Committee of the Cardinal & Gold Fund of Cardinal Hayes High following year, sented CBOT on various industry School, Bronx, New York. In 2006, Duffy gave the keynote address he was con- panels concerning trading prac- at Irish America’s Wall Street 50 dinner, and was honored by the firmed by the tices and trading operations. Ireland Chamber of Commerce in the United States. His mother is U.S. Senate as a Durkin, who has also been an from NewTongore, County Leitrim and his father is from Culleens, member of the adjunct faculty member of Lewis County Sligo. Federal Retirement Thrift University's MBA program, Investment Board (FRTIB). He teaching courses in organization- serves on several boards includ- al behavior and management, is Mary Callahan Michael Farrell ing FXMarketSpace Limited and a second-generation Irish- Erdoes MetLife World Business Chicago. His American who traces his roots to involvement extends to the County Mayo on both sides. He JP Morgan Michael K. Farrell is an execu- tive vice president at MetLife Economic Club of Chicago and credits his Irish immigrant Private Bank and is responsible for the organi- the President’s Circle of the grandparents with “paving the Mary Callahan Erdoes is Chief zation’s Independent Distribution Chicago Council on Global way” for his Executive Officer of JPMorgan Group and Affairs. Duffy is involved in the “beautiful and Private Bank and Chairman of MetLife Mercy Home for Boys and Girls productive life,” Global Wealth Management. As a Resources which and Saint Xavier University. In adding: “The member of the JPMorgan Chase services the not- 2007, he received a Doctor of Irish have Executive Committee, her for-profit com- Humane Letters from DePaul proven to be a responsibilities include working munity. Prior to University. Duffy attended the resilient and with the firm’s ultra high net joining MetLife University of Wisconsin- giving culture worth clients. in 2001, Farrell Whitewater. He calls his third- and I am most grateful to be a Since joining J.P. Morgan in held the positions of president, generation Irish heritage a source part of that legacy.” He has a 1996, Callahan Erdoes has served Mutual Benefit Pension of “great pride,” and traces his Bachelor’s degree in Business in a variety of roles including Corporation and senior vice pres- father’s family to Westport, Administration and an MBA head of Investment Management ident, sales and marketing for County Mayo. He lives in from Lewis University. Durkin and Alternative Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Lemont, Illinois with his wife lives in Chicago with his wife Solutions for the Company. He has served as and twin sons. and four children. Private Bank national sales director for and CEO of ReliaStar Retirement Plans, JPMorgan member of the board of directors Robert Charles Golden Private Bank. of Employee Benefit Plans, Inc., Prudential Financial An Illinois vice president of Mutual Benefit Bob Golden joined Prudential in 1976 and is now native, Callahan Investment Advisory Corp. and Executive Vice President of Prudential Financial. Erdoes is fourth-generation Irish- director of Essex Corporation. Under his leadership, Prudential founded a technolo- American. Her great-grandpar- He currently serves on the Board gy and call center in County Donegal, which now ents emigrated from Counties of Directors of NAVA. employs 700 people. Golden, who earned his BS Cork on her father’s side and Farrell, who graduated from and MBA from Fordham University, serves as first vice chair and Tipperary on her mother’s. She Fairleigh Dickenson University director of HeartShare Human Services of New York, a nonprofit received her B.S. from and went on to attend the organization for children in need. In 2000, he received the Ellis Island Georgetown University and her Columbia University School of Medal of Honor. In 2001, he was named Man of the Year by Catholic M.B.A. from Harvard Business Management, is active in several Charities of Brooklyn and by the New York Aquarium. In 2002, School. A member of the Young community organizations includ- Golden was named Man of the Year by Catholic Big Brothers, and in Presidents’ Organization, she ing St. Vincent’s Home and 2006 was named a Distinguished Irish-American by New York City serves on the Board of Directors School Association, Integrity Comptroller, William Thompson. Golden is a Knight of Malta and a of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. House Drug Abuse Center, the Knight Grand Cross of the Holy Sepulchre. A third-generation Irish- Callahan Erdoes lives with her Fordham Gridiron Club, and the American with roots in County Mayo, he is a member of the Friendly husband and three daughters in Boys and Girls Club of Newark. Sons of St. Patrick, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the St. Patrick New York City. A second-generation Irish- Society of Brooklyn. He and his wife Maureen live in Staten Island American, he traces his father’s with their two children, Katie and Bobby. family to Tuam, County Galway.

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WAL L STREET50 Michael Grealy Michael Higgins James Hogan Bank of Ireland Group CIBC HSBC Michael Grealy is CEO for Alternative Michael Higgins is Managing As Executive Vice President Investments and International Distribution in the Director and Head of Real Estate of HSBC Holdings PLC/HSBC Capital Markets Division of the Bank of Ireland Finance at CIBC World Markets. Bank USA, James Hogan is Group. As CEO, Grealy oversees the Group’s CIBC is a leading financial insti- responsible for Trade and Supply interests in international and alternative invest- tution and one of the largest in Chain and Global Transaction ments, including being the Chairman of both North America, with total assets Banking at HSBC. He joined Iridian Asset Management and Guggenheim Advisors, and board exceeding $200 billion and HSBC in 1987 and has served in member of Paul Capital Investment. He is also responsible for the offices around the world. a variety of positions across a distribution of investment products through the group’s international Higgins is one of the most number of disciplines within the sales and client service platform in the U.S., Canada, Australia, the active and respected real estate HSBC Group. Hogan oversees UK, and Europe. Prior to joining the Bank of Ireland Group, he finance execu- the Trade and Supply Chain worked with Boston Scientific, Baxter Healthcare, Digital Equipment tives in the U.S. business, which provides adviso- Corp. and Seagate Technology. He has experi- ry services, financing, and sup- He is the President and Director of the Board of the New Ireland ence in all port for companies in North Fund in New York. Grealy is a co-founder and director of Coláiste aspects of the America, carrying out cross-bor- Lurgan, an educational institution in the Connemara Gaeltacht dedicated real estate indus- der trade with the rest of the to the promotion of Irish language and culture. Grealy received a B. Ed. try and has been world. With HSBC’s history of from University College, Dublin and a M.Sc. Management from Trinity involved in the servicing the international trade College, Dublin; he is also a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers. financing and advisory of over needs of companies worldwide, $50 billion of commercial real he plays an integral role in the estate transactions. continuation of HSBC’s commit- Denis Kelleher Sean Kelleher A native of County Mayo, ment to support international Wall Street Access Wall Street Access Higgins earned a Bachelor of networks across emerging and Denis Kelleher is Founder and As managing director of Wall Commerce degree from National developed markets. CEO of Wall Street Access, a Street Access, the financial University of Ireland, Galway, Hogan was diversified financial services services where he serves on the founda- born and raised organization with expertise in organization tion board. He also holds a in Dublin, and money management and trading founded by his Master of Science degree in Real graduated from for institutions and hedge funds. father Denis Estate Finance from New York the University of Billions of dollars are processed Kelleher, Sean University. Dublin with a through Wall Street Access Kelleher has Higgins, who is married and Bachelor of annually and it is a member of helped guide the has four children, is a member of Commerce. He the New York Stock Exchange. firm through The American Ireland Fund. An serves on Goal USA’s advisory Kelleher began his career in successful ventures in online avid golfer, he served as chair- board, and says being Irish “pro- 1958 as a messenger with brokerage, institutional man of the AIF’s golf outing at vides a firm foundation to live Merrill Lynch, where through research and trading and asset Baltusrol, New Jersey in 2004. and work anywhere in the world, dynamic financial talent, he rose management. which is based on a combination dramatically through the compa- In 1992, Kelleher joined the of pride, dynamism, resilience ny ranks until 1969 when he firm as a clerk and now and good humor.” He is married founded Ruane manages a team of more than 50 to Josie, and is an avid golfer Cunniff and its analysts, traders and salespeople. and long distance runner. Sequoia Fund. A graduate of Wagner College, In 1981 he Kelleher now serves on the col- founded Wall lege’s alumni board. He also Donald Keough Street Access. serves as co-chairman of the Allen & Company Kelleher, a Staten Island Film Festival and Donald Keough became Chairman of Allen & native of is the co-founder of the Gerry Company, Inc., in 1993 following his retirement as County Kerry, Ireland, is a grad- Red Wilson Foundation to sup- President, COO of the Coca-Cola Company. uate of St. John’s University, port spinal meningitis research. In 2004, Coca-Cola re-elected Keough to the where he served as Chairman of Kelleher, who spent the sum- post of director. Keough also serves on the boards the Board for the last eight mers of his youth in Ireland, of IAC/InterActive Corp., Global Yankee Holdings, Convera years. He is Director of The working the bog, says the cata- Corporation, and Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. He has received various New Ireland Fund and member lysts behind his love for Irish honors in his career, including honorary doctorates from the of the Staten Island Foundation. culture are his family and play- University of Notre Dame, his alma mater Creighton University, He was proud to be recognized ing Gaelic Football in his Emory University, Trinity College, Dublin, University College with the Ellis Island Medal of father’s village in County Kerry. Dublin, and Clarke University. The University of Notre Dame’s high- Honor in 1995. In 2005, He lives on Staten Island, New est honor, the Laetare Medal, was presented to Keough in 1993. In Kelleher was Grand Marshal of York with his wife Wendy and 1995, he established the Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in their three children, Maggie, at the University of Notre Dame. He was elected a Fellow of the New York City. He is married Jack and Denis. American Academy of Art & Sciences in 2002 and inducted into the with three children and seven Junior Achievement National Business Hall of Fame in 2003. Keough grandchildren. received honorary Irish citizenship in June, 2007.

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WAL L STREET50 Sean T. Kilduff Catherine Kinney Thomas Lynch UBS NYSE Euronext Milkie/Ferguson Investments As Senior Vice President of Catherine R. Kinney is Group As Vice-President/Investments and registered Investments at UBS Private Executive Vice President and principal of Dallas-based Milkie/Ferguson Wealth Management, Sean T. Head of Global Listings, NYSE Investments, Thomas Patrick Lynch works closely Kilduff focuses on delivering Euronext, and a member of the with clients assisting them with stock selection, customized solutions to high net NYSE Euronext Management asset allocation and risk management. Lynch not worth individuals and families. Committee. Based in Paris, she is only works with clients but also manages Milkie- He also serves as Senior Portfolio responsible for overseeing the Ferguson advisors outside of the company’s central Dallas office. Manager in the Portfolio company’s global listings and A graduate of University of Missouri-Kansas City, Lynch has over Management Program concentrat- NYSE Euronext marketing and 20 years of experience as an investment adviser and stockbroker. As a ed on developing customized branding. specialist in stocks and IRA rollovers, he has been honored with Top investment strategies that utilize Kinney joined the NYSE in Producer awards. strategic and 1974 and has held management A married father of two, Lynch honors the motto on the Lynch tactical asset positions in several divisions, Family Coat of Arms, “Semper Fidelis” (Always Faithful). The sec- allocation including Technology Planning, ond-generation Irish-American remains always faithful to his family’s models. Sales and Marketing, Operations roots in counties Roscommon and Cork. He and his wife have worked Born and and Regulation. In 1986, she with Project Children, a program that brings Protestant and Catholic raised in New became responsible for children to the U.S. from Northern Ireland each summer. Lynch’s pride York City, managing trading-floor in his heritage has led him to be an active member of the Irish- Kilduff is a operations and technology. American society in Dallas, Texas where he currently resides. graduate of St. John’s University Kinney graduated magna cum with a B.S. in Finance. He began laude from Iona College and his career at Shearson Lehman completed the Advanced Joseph Meg McCarthy Brothers and spent nine years at Management Program, Harvard McAlinden Aetna Inc. Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Graduate School of Business. As Chief Information Officer Management before moving his She is a member of the boards Catalpa Capital (CIO) and Senior Vice President team and practice to UBS Private of Georgetown University and Joseph McAlinden established of Procurement Wealth Management. A first-gen- Catholic Catalpa Capital LLC in March and Real Estate, eration Irish-American, Kilduff’s Charities. 2007 and serves as its Chairman Meg McCarthy mother was born and raised in A second- and Chief Executive. For 12 is responsible for Dublin and his father is from generation Irish- years prior to Catalpa, all information Westmeath. He notes, “Having American, McAlinden worked at Morgan technology serv- visited my grandmother in Dublin Kinney’s pater- Stanley Investment Management ices, process and often, Ireland became a big part nal grandfather as Chief Investment Officer. performance of my life from an early age. As a was from A native of Newark, New improvement, procurement and result, I gained a true appreciation County Mayo and her paternal Jersey, McAlinden graduated real estate at Aetna Inc. Prior to for the world famous warmth and grandmother was from from Rutgers University with a being named CIO in 2005, incredible wit of the Irish people.” Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan. B.A. in Economics and is a McCarthy was Vice President and Kilduff lives in Rockville Her maternal grandfather was Chartered Financial Analyst. He Head of Business Solutions Centre, New York with his wife from County Sligo and her began his career Delivery at Aetna. Jean and their four children. maternal grandmother was from on the floor of McCarthy received her County Leitrim. the New York Stock Exchange Master’s of Public Health degree over 30 years in Hospital Administration from ago. A first-gen- Yale University and received her Joseph Manning eration Irish- B.A. in Philosophy from Merrill Lynch & Co. American, his Providence College. Before work- father hails from ing for Aetna, she was Senior Joseph R. Manning joined Merrill Lynch as an Vice President of Information analyst on the Risk Arbitrage desk after complet- County Down and his mother is a native of Scotland. McAlinden Technology at CIGNA. ing an MBA in Finance from New York McCarthy’s military experience University. He then moved on to become a credit is married with five children. He serves on the Board of the includes U.S. Navy Medical analyst and trader on the Convertible Desk and to Services Corps; Lieutenant at earn his Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Convent of the Sacred Heart and on the New York Board and Bethesda Naval Hospital; and In 2003, Manning joined Merrill’s Prime Brokerage business and was U.S. Navy Reserves, Lieutenant promoted to the Head of U.S. PB Sales. Currently, he leads a sales Dinner Committee of The American Ireland Fund. Of his Commander. A third-generation and relationship management team in the Global Markets Financing Irish-American whose father’s & Services division. Gaelic roots he says: “My good fortune to have experienced a family came from Kerry, Manning’s financial efforts extend into the social sector. He was McCarthy is a member of the one of the founders of The Manhattan Society, an organization raising taste of the ‘American Dream’ may have defined for others the Ancient Order of Hibernians and funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, is a supporter of the calls her Irish heritage a source of Wall Street Friends of St. Christopher, and is a charter member of the tapestry of what I am, but, for me, my Irish heritage defines the “strong spirit, personal warmth, President’s Council for his alma mater, Assumption College. and perseverance.” A member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Manning is a sec- fabric of who I am.” ond-generation Irish-American, tracing his family to County Cork on his father’s side and Kerry on his mother’s side. He is married with three children.

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WAL L STREET50 Liam McGee Thomas Seamus Bank of America McInerney McMahon Liam E. McGee is President of Global ING Booz & Company Consumer and Small Business Banking for Bank Thomas J. McInerney is the Seamus McMahon is the Vice of America, which serves nearly 56 million con- Chairman & CEO of ING President of Financial Services sumer and small business households in the U.S., Insurance Americas and also at Booz & Company, based in Canada and Europe. serves on the New York. A partner in Booz McGee joined Bank of America in 1990 and ING Group from 1991-1995, he went to has broad leadership experience in consumer and commercial Executive HSBC Bank USA and then banking, as well as technology and operations. In 2001, he was Board. He is rejoined the firm in October appointed president of the Bank of America Consumer Bank. responsible for 2006. In his current position Active in civic affairs and education, McGee is a member of the all United States McMahon leads the commercial National Urban League Board of Trustees and the Arts & Science Financial banking practice in the United Council in Charlotte, North Carolina. He recently served as chairman Services (USFS) States. Prior to rejoining the firm of the board of trustees of both the University of San Diego and the businesses, which includes McMahon held leadership posi- United Way of Greater Los Angeles. retirement, investment, mutual tions at other consulting firms A native of County Donegal, Ireland, McGee grew up in Southern funds, insurance, employee ben- and had line responsibilities at California and speaks Spanish fluently. A graduate of the University efits, reinsurance and asset man- Toronto Dominion Bank and of San Diego, he has a master’s degree in business administration agement products and services HSBC Group. from Pepperdine University, and a law degree from Loyola Law across the United States. McMahon, whose roots are in School. McGee and his family live in Charlotte. McInerney was president of counties Monaghan and Aetna Financial Services and Tipperary, attended Trinity joined ING after they acquired College, Dublin where he gradu- Anthony Conor Murphy Aetna Financial in December ated with a BA in Economics. Murphy MetLife 2000. After graduating with hon- Asked what his Irish heritage HSBC As vice president and head of ors from Colgate University in means to him, McMahon Anthony (Tony) Murphy is sen- investor relations for MetLife, 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts answers, “My Irish heritage ior executive vice president of Conor Murphy degree in Economics, McInerney anchors me and strategy implementation at HSBC manages coordi- received a Master of Business secures my North America Holdings Inc., a nation and exe- Administration degree, with a sense of commu- wholly owned subsidiary of cution of pre- concentration in Finance and nity Ð especially HSBC Holdings plc senting MetLife’s Investments, from the Tuck important in (NYSE:HBC). In previous roles financial results School of Business at Dartmouth fast-moving with HSBC, Murphy was Head of and strategies to College in 1982. New York.” Portfolio Management for HSBC the analyst and A fourth-generation Irish- McMahon cur- North America and President and investor commu- American with roots in Counties rently serves on the board of the Chief Executive Officer of HSBC nity. Murphy was appointed to Clare and Cork, McInerney’s National Council on Economic Securities (USA) Inc. Before his current position in November great-grandparents, both mater- Education and on the Advisory joining HSBC 2007. He has been with MetLife nal and paternal, came to the Board of Enterprise Ireland. He in 1990, he held since October 2000 after seven United States in the 1840’s and has two children and lives in positions at years with PWC LLP. Conor 50’s. New York. Towers, Perrin, spent his early career with Grant Forster and Thornton LLP in Dublin. Crosby, HSBC A past president of the James Capel & Association of Chartered Co. and Nomura Accountants, Murphy is a certi- Kathleen Murphy ING International, based in London. fied public accountant and mem- Kathleen Murphy is Chief Executive Officer of Throughout his career, Murphy ber of the Massachusetts Society ING U.S. Wealth Management. Her responsibilities has been a consistent advocate for of CPAs. include leading the Retirement Services and Retail enhancing workplace diversity Murphy is known for telling Annuity businesses of ING, which had pretax earn- and a promoter of community people, “I’m a Donegal man, my ing in 2007 of over $1 billion, as well as ING’s outreach initiatives in the educa- home (and heart) has always Broker Dealer network, one of the largest independ- tion field. Born in Dublin, he been Donegal, where the third ent broker dealer systems in the country. As CEO, earned his degree in Mathematics generation of Murphys still run Murphy is charged with leading thousands of employees and well over and Physics from Trinity College, the family store, ‘Murphy of 150,000 distribution partners to drive growth and value creation while Dublin. He holds a Ph.D. in Ireland.’ ” Murphy resides in continually enhancing the company’s competitive positioning. Murphy Theoretical Physics from Oxford Westchester County, NY with his joined ING in 2000, after ING’s acquisition of Aetna Financial University, and is a Fellow of the wife Ani and sons Jack and Services. Prior to this acquisition, she served as General Counsel and UK Institute of Actuaries. Married Aidan but remains close to his Chief Compliance Officer of Aetna. Murphy holds a Juris Doctorate with two children, aged 19 and family who still live in Donegal. degree with highest honors from the University of Connecticut, and 13, Murphy counts trekking and His favorite quote, “We are our graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both photography among his many father’s sons,” comes from Economics and Political Science from Fairfield University. She is interests. Douglas Hyde, the first President third-generation Irish-American – her father Charles Murphy’s family of Ireland, and reflects his great hailed from Cork, while her mother, Christine Connor’s family were admiration for his father. from Kerry. Murphy is married to George Hornyak and they have a son, Jack.

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WAL L STREET50 John Ciaran O’Kelly John T. O’Neal O’Donoghue Bank of America DST Systems, Inc. SG Cowen & Co. LLC Ciaran O’Kelly is Head of As vice president of DST Systems, Inc., and presi- John F. O’Donoghue is the Global Equities at Bank of dent of DST Securities, Inc., John O’Neal developed Head of Equities at Cowen & America, with responsibility for the most widely used mutual fund accounting system Company LLC and a member of cash and derivatives sales and in the country, the DST Portfolio Accounting System the firm’s Executive Committee. trading, institutional sales, elec- (PAS). And after 30 years with DST, he continues to As such, O’Donoghue oversees tronic trading, NYSE Specialist, work in business development and special projects. the firm’s research sales, sales prime brokerage and equity capi- O’Neal, who holds a BA in Economics and an MBA from the trading, and all trading areas of tal markets. University of Missouri, Kansas City, and retired from the Missouri the firm, along with strategic O’Kelly joined Bank of Army National Guard in 1992 as a Lt. Colonel, continues to research planning and expansion of the America in 2002 as Head of his Irish ancestors who emigrated in the 1790s. He supports various firm’s franchise. Equity Trading, with a mandate Irish organizations including the Irish Museum and Cultural Center of Prior to join- to significantly grow the firm’s Kansas City, and the Celtic Fringe of Kansas City. ing Cowen in Global Equities business. In 2006, O’Neal was honored with the Greater Kansas City Irish 2005, During his tenure at the firm, he Unification Award by the AOH of Kansas City for his work improving O’Donoghue has held leadership roles across communications between various Irish organizations. was Managing Markets and Banking, including O’Neal currently resides in Overland Park, Kansas with his wife. He Director and Co- Head of U.S. Equities and Head is dedicated to ensuring that his two children and three grandchildren Head of Trading of Equity Capital Markets. know and celebrate their Irish heritage. at Credit Suisse Prior to joining Bank of First Boston and was a member America, he worked at Citigroup of that firm’s Global Equity /Smith Barney for 11 years, most Arthur Ryan Thomas Ryan Operating Committee. Prior to recently as Head of Equity Prudential Financial Trading from 2000 to 2002. ING Capital that, he was a partner at After 14 years as Chairman Thomas Ryan is Managing O’Kelly, who received a Schroders PLC and spent 24 and CEO of Prudential Financial, Director and Regional Head of Bachelor of Business Studies years working with Schroders, Inc., one of the largest diversified the Americas from Dublin City University in including six years as Managing financial institutions in the for the Financial 1989, is a mem- Director. world, Arthur F. Ryan retired in Engineering ber of New York A native of County Down, May 2008. When Ryan took the Group at ING University’s O’Donoghue received an honors position in 1994, he became the Capital based in Glucksman B.Sc. degree in Economics from first Chairman and CEO in the New York. He Ireland House Queen’s University in Belfast. company’s history to be elected is the youngest and The He moved to the United States from outside the company. managing direc- American in 1980 and has been active in Prior to joining Prudential tor in ING Capital and under his Ireland Fund the American Ireland Fund, serv- Financial, Ryan was President leadership the group has grown (AIF). He has served on the ing on the last seven chairman’s and COO of Chase Manhattan to be the largest revenue-genera- chairman’s committee for the committees for the annual New Bank. Ryan was named chair- tor for ING Capital in the region. annual AIF New York gala for York Gala. O’Donoghue also man of the American Council of Ryan joined ING 14 years ago seven years. O’Kelly lives in serves on the QUB Advisory Life Insurers in October 2003. after a short period at NCB Manhattan with his wife Lisa Board (US) and is married with He is also Stockbrokers in Dublin. He and their three sons. two sons. co-chair of the moved to New York in New Jersey November of 2001 to help Performing develop the Financial Arts Center. Engineering business for ING in Brian A. Ruane Ryan is a the U.S. and was made regional The Bank of New York Mellon member of the head of the group in 2003. Council on Ryan has a degree in Business Brian Ruane is Executive Vice President and Head Foreign Relations and the board Studies from the University of of Financial Institutions at The Bank of New York of trustees of New York Limerick and received a master’s Mellon. He is responsible for relationships and busi- Presbyterian Hospital, of science in Economics from the ness development for Broker/Dealers, Banks and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Center for Economic Research in Hedge Funds globally. Ruane also sits on the Board of He serves as co-chair of the Tilburg, the Netherlands. Since Pershing LLC, the bank’s NYSE Broker/Dealer and board of Achieve, Inc., an organ- coming to New York as a student BNY Mellon Financial Services PLC, the bank’s Irish domiciled bank. ization created by U.S. gover- many years ago, Ryan is fulfill- Ruane graduated from Colaiste Eanna in Dublin in 1982. In 1989, he nors and business leaders to pro- ing a dream by working in the graduated from The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants in the mote high academic standards finance sector with ING. U.K. and Ireland. In 1995, he received his MBA from The Zarb School of for public schools in the U.S. A member of The American Business, New York, and in 2004, he was asked to sit on The Federal Ryan, who graduated from Ireland Fund, Ryan is also on the Reserve’s Working Committee on the Future of the U.S. Treasury Market. Providence College with a advisory committees of the His father comes from Crossmolina, County Mayo and his mother is from degree in mathematics, is a sec- SDLP USA and the University Drumhaldry, County Longford. He and wife Anna Lynch, who is from ond-generation Irish-American of Limerick Foundation. He Dublin, live in New York with their four children. whose family hails from County lives in New York with his wife Ruane sits on the advisory boards of the UCD Michael Smurfit Tipperary. He is married with Dawn and their daughter Alice, School of Business, Dublin, and the Zarb School of Business, New four children. born in March 2008. York.

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WAL L STREET50 Sharon Sager Brian Sweeney James Sweeney UBS Private Wealth Marco Polo Network MFS Management Brian Sweeney is one of the founding James Sweeney is the Vice President of Sharon Sager, Senior Vice President, members of Marco Polo Network, which the Broker/Dealer Division of MFS Fund Investments, is a Private Wealth Advisor at was established in New York City in 2001. Distributors, Inc. UBS Financial Services Inc. A 25-year veter- He currently serves as managing director of Sweeney joined MFS in 1997 from an of the financial securities the financial services firm with a special- Smith Barney, Inc., industry, Sharon previously ized focus on emerging markets. where he had held worked in the textile industry. With offices across the major emerging positions as Divisional She graduated from the markets, Marco Polo Network is one of the Sales Director and College of Mount St. Vincent, fastest growing platforms capitalizing on Senior Sales Director Riverdale, New York, with a global demand for emerging market invest- of Mutual Funds since bachelor’s degree in fine arts. ments and the growth of new marketplaces 1991. Prior to that he Later, she obtained the across the globe. Sweeney, who has over held sales manage- Certified Investment Analyst (CIMA) degree 15 years experience in ment positions in the Direct Investments from the Investment Management Consultants trading and operations, Department of Shearson Lehman Association. In 1983, she began her financial is responsible for client Brothers, and from 1981 to 1986 he career at Kidder Peabody & Co., which strategy and sales of worked for Prudential-Bache Securities in merged with Paine Webber in 1995 and UBS equities, futures and the Direct Investment and Legal in 2000. Sager is a member of the board of fixed income to Quant Departments. He is a graduate of the directors of C-CAP (Careers Through Funds and Proprietary University of Notre Dame and New York Culinary Arts Program), former co-chairman Trading Desks in University School of Law. of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Europe and the USA. He began his career A second-generation Irish-American, Venture Fund, a not-for-profit micro lender, at Citigroup before becoming an options Sweeney said: “The history of the Irish and served in the President’s Circle of the specialist on the NYSE floor, and devel- teaches us that adversity can be overcome James Beard Foundation. In 2006, 2007 and oped his emerging markets expertise while with a positive attitude, hard work and a 2008 Sager was named one of Barron’s Top at the Standard Bank of South Africa. sense of humor.” His father’s family is 100 Women Financial Advisors. Sager is a A Dublin native, Sweeney was educated from County Mayo, his mother’s from second-generation Irish-American and, true to at Terenure College and University College County Clare. her roots, she holds membership in the Irish of Dublin, where he received a B.A. in A native of Queens, Sweeney works in Georgian Society and the New York Irish Economics and English. He resides in New New York City and is married with two History Roundtable. Her father’s family the York City with his wife, Fabienne and two children. O’Tooles are from County Galway, while her children Liam and Xavier. mother’s, the Carrolls, hail from County Cork.

Husband and wife honorees help promote Irish culture in New York City Maureen White • IRC / Steven Rattner • Quadrangle Group LLC

Maureen White takes her Irish heritage very Steven Rattner is Managing Principal of Quadrangle seriously– she’s helping to build a new Irish- Group LLC, a private investment firm with more than American Cultural Center in New York City. White, $6 billion of assets under management. Quadrangle who is Chairman of the Board of Overseers of The invests in media and communications companies International Rescue Committee (IRC), has been through separate private and public investment strate- active with a number of organizations which focused gies and across all asset classes through its asset man- on international humanitarian issues. But her Irish agement business. Quadrangle has offices in New York, roots are very close to her heart, and so is her hus- London and Silicon Valley and will be opening an band, financier Steven Rattner, who is supportive of her efforts. The office later this year in Hong Kong. Prior to the formation of couple recently opened their home on Fifth Avenue, New York City, for Quadrangle in March 2000, Rattner served as Deputy Chairman and a fundraising event for the Irish-American Center with actor Gabriel Deputy CEO of Lazard Frères & Co. In addition to his management Byrne, who is also on board on the project, serving as the special guest. responsibilities, Rattner founded the firm’s Media and Communications White was also a guest speaker at the Irish-American Forum in New Group and was involved in York last November Ð she spoke on philanthropy. A third-generation many of the largest and most Irish-American with roots in Cork and Kilkenny, she served as National important transactions in the Finance Chair of the Hillary Clinton for President campaign, and was industry. Rattner received his the National Finance Chair of the Democratic National Committee for BA in economics from Brown five years. She also had a career in international economic research, and was later awarded the working with the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and Harvey Baker Fellowship. He the Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo, and First Boston Corporation is a former Chairman of thir- and Globe Finlay International. teen.org and is also a Trustee White, who received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her of the Metropolitan Museum MSc from the London School of Economics, is currently on the Board of Art, and an Honorary Maureen White with Gabriel Byrne at a of the International Women’s Health Coalition and the Chatham House Trustee of the Brookings fundraiser in her Manhattan home for Foundation. She and husband Steven, have four children. Institution. The Irish-American Cultural Center.

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“Irish” Places to See in Chicago The mere act of flying into Chicago is a reminder of the Old St. Patrick’s Church Irish impact upon the city. O’Hare International Airport is Founded by Irish immigrants in 1846, the church named after Lt. Commander Edward Henry “Butch” 3survived the great fire of 1871, and still serves O’Hare. The U.S. Navy’s first flying ace, O’Hare was over 3,000 households. Designed by Architect awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in the Pacific Thomas O’Shaughnessy, the church features beauti- during World War II. On November 26, 1943, O’Hare par- ful stained-glass windows (pictured left) which ticipated in the first night attack on Japanese forces. The helped earn it a spot on the National Register of 29-year-old’s plane was shot down and never recovered. Historic Places in 1977. Old St. Patrick’s Church: 700 After the war, Chicago Tribune publisher Colonel Robert W.Adams St. Chicago.Tel:(312) 648-1021. McCormick suggested changing the name of Chicago’s Orchard Depot Airport in honor of O’Hare. Irish-American Heritage Center The IAHC was opened officially by Irish presi- Bridgeport 4dent Mary Robinson in 1991.The complex fea- Take a ride through Bridgeport, the South Side neigh- tures a library, museum and even the Fifth Province 1borhood settled by 19th-century refugees from the pub.The center regularly hosts talks, concerts and Great Hunger who built the Illinois & MIchigan (I&M) Canal other events.Address: 4626 North Knox Avenue, that connected Chicago to the world. Bridgeport also sent Chicago, IL 60630.Tel. 773-282-7035. Edward J. Kelly and the father-and-son Richard J. and Richard M. Daley to City Hall to become the most power- Chicago Irish Immigration ful mayors in the country. Some of the old Canal-era hous- Support es are still visible.The novel Galway Bay coming out in February tells the story of the earliest Chicago Irish. Founded in 1998, CIIS continues the tradition of assisting new- 5comers to Chicago.Address: 640 North LaSalle Street, #390 Gaelic Park Chicago, IL 60610.Tel:312-337-8445. Opened in 1985, Gaelic Park is a venue for Irish sports, music 2and culture, as well as an annual festival.The park also hosts Annual noteworthy Irish events include the Chicago Irish Film Chicago Gaelic Athletic Association events, including hurling and 6Festival, the IAHC’s annual Fest and, of course, the Chicago St. soccer. Gaelic Park, 6119 W. 147th St., Oak Forest, IL, 60452.Tel. Patrick’s Day Parade, which marches north up Columbus Drive 708-687-9323. before concluding at Buckingham Fountain. InvestNorthernIreland 2/27/08 5:15 PM Page 1 PRNEWSWIRE 6/26/08 1:47 PM Page 1 Continental 6/27/08 9:19 AM Page 1 Project2 4/22/08 11:13 AM Page 1 Save some green this Summer!

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