| Who's who in Finance: Ciaran McNamara, Director, Investec Ireland Ltd |
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Ciaran McNamara
Director, Investec Ireland Ltd
Current responsibilities: Head of Private Banking: Investec’s private banking activities in Ireland include: banking (deposits and capital guaranteed products), lending (property lending, investment gearing, structured lending and development finance), investments (property syndicates/ funds, private equity, hedge funds) and treasury services (foreign exchange and interest rate products).
Email: ciaran.mcnamara@investec.ie
Education: Third Level: University College Dublin, B.E. Civil Engineering, 1985; Second Level St. Mels College, Longford
Professional Memberships: Member of the Institute of Bankers, Ireland
Career progress: 1985-1988: Civil engineer with John Paul Construction. Joined Gandon Securities in 1988 as a trainee dealer. Appointed a director of Gandon in 1991 and joint head of corporate treasury. Post take-over by Woodchester Credit Lyonnais in 1995 became head of the new enlarged corporate treasury and director of Gandon Capital Markets Plc. Investec acquisition of Gandon completed in April 2000 from GE Capital Woodchester and assumed responsibility for private banking in August 2001.
Personal: Date of Birth: 14 April 1964; Place of Birth: County Leitrim; Family: Wife Susan, children Elliot (2yrs), Brooke (3months)
Social and Sporting memberships: Member of Powerscourt Golf Club and Riverview tennis and fitness club
Interests: Golf, skiing and most other sports
Recommended Books: Business: When Genius Fails, The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management, Roger Lowenstein; Billionaire. Non-business: A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle; Perfume, Patrick Suskind. |
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| Article appeared in the December 2003 issue.
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