our Previous CPD Fest Speakers
Stuart Anderson
XpertDPO
Stuart has gained a unique blend of business and technical acumen in the areas of Data Protection, Data Quality and implementing Regulatory Compliance processes. Certified by IBITGQ as a GDPR practitioner and registered with GASQ (The Global Association for Software Quality), Stuart is an Officer member of the Association of Data Protection Officers, the Association of Compliance Officers Ireland and a member of the Institute of Banking.
James Bradley
James Bradley & Co
James is a qualified accountant and tax consultant. He is the principle of his own tax consultancy practice in Cork and deals with clients from all economy sectors and provides professional tax advice under all tax heads to his clients.
James has been lecturing for the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Taxation in Tax for more than ten years and has also set tax exams for both Institutes.
Brendan Casey
PRSI Consultant
Brendan Casey is a retired senior civil servant from the Department of Social Protection. Prior to retirement he had responsibility over all aspects of ‘PRSI Class’ determination.
Currently, he provides specialised advice on PRSI liabilities and PRSI Refunds governed by the legislation of the Department of Social Protection to clients, specifically the accountancy profession. He also provides lectures on all aspects of PRSI.
Padraig Daly
Mazars
Padraig is Tax Director with Mazars. He previously worked with Deloitte and BDO where he provided financial and taxation advice to private clients, business owners and multinational companies. Over the course of the past 12 years, he has written and lectured extensively for a number of professional bodies on taxation matters.
Gabrielle Dillon
Dermot O’Brien & Associates
Gabrielle Dillon, a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA), is a Director of Dermot O’Brien & Associates, a firm specialising in VAT consultancy services, having previously worked in the VAT Department of BDO.
She is the regular author of VAT Cases & VAT News in Irish Tax Review and is a member of the Irish Tax Review Editorial Board and she has lectured frequently in VAT for the Irish Tax Institute and other professional bodies. She is co-author of the Institute publication Value-Added Tax & VAT on Property.
Mark Doyle
Doyle Keaney
Mark is a member of Chartered Accountants Ireland and the Irish Taxation Institute. He is also a member of the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies – Ireland (CCAB-I) Taxation Committee and he is chairman of the Tax Administration Liaison Committee (TALC) Capital committee. He was formerly Tax Director with Grant Thornton where he worked for eight years.
Mark speaks extensively on tax matters for professional bodies and also contributes articles to all of the major professional journals and in the national press.
Anthony Garvey
DCM Learning
Anthony is a highly qualified and experienced Public Speaking, Presentation Skills & Management Skills trainer. Over the past 18 years Anthony has provided training and consultancy to a wide range of organisations including technology and telecommunication blue chip companies, educational institutes and government departments.
Neil Hughes
Baker Tilly
Neil Hughes is Managing Partner of Baker Tilly. With offices in Dublin and Enniscorthy and a Baker Tilly member firm office in Belfast, the firm has grown substantially in recent years from its origins as a merger of smaller firms. Now with six departments, it has transformed work practices and approach regarding its increasing client base.
Christy Kearney
Financial Reporting
Christy is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He has undertaken extensive speaking engagements in financial reporting and he has lectured and examined at final level.
Robert Kirk
Financial Reporting
As a lead member of our technical support team, John relishes problem-solving to help accountants develop innovative client solutions and sharing technical knowledge on tax, financial reporting and auditing.
A Chartered Tax Adviser, he advises clients in practice on a range of issues from income tax, tax planning, restructuring and exit planning to Revenue audits. In addition, he provides support on financial reporting, auditing and company law; conducts company valuations and advises on pre-sale restructuring.
Mark Lloydbottom
Mark Lloydbottom Consulting
Mark is acknowledged as a futurist who specialises in management planning and strategy for accounting firms. His programmes and consulting are based on over 25 years’ experience as a practitioner and consultant.
Mark was a practitioner for 16 years having started his own practice in Bristol in 1978. He is the founder of Practice Track and PracticeWEB and has also served on various committees with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, including Tomorrow’s Practice and the Profitable and Sustainable Practice reports.
Seamus McGrath
The Law Society of Ireland
Seamus McGrath manages of a team of professionals engaged in the financial regulation of the solicitors profession and administration of claims on the Law Society’s Compensation Fund.
John Murphy
OmniPro
As a lead member of our technical support team, John relishes problem-solving to help accountants develop innovative client solutions and sharing technical knowledge on tax, financial reporting and auditing.
A Chartered Tax Adviser, he advises clients in practice on a range of issues from income tax, tax planning, restructuring and exit planning to Revenue audits. In addition, he provides support on financial reporting, auditing and company law; conducts company valuations and advises on pre-sale restructuring.
Paul Murphy
Martin J Kelly & Co
Paul Murphy is a taxation consultant and management accountant for Martin J. Kelly & Co.
He is a co-author of the Irish Taxation Institute’s annual publication, Irish Taxation Law and Practice.
Tom Murray
Friel Stafford
Tom is partner in Friel Stafford, one of Ireland’s leading advisory firms. He specialises in the 4 key areas of Corporate Recovery & Insolvency, Corporate Finance, Forensic Accounting & Expert Witness and Personal Insolvency. He is also an experienced Non – Executive Director.
Tom qualified as an accountant in 1997 and is a member of ACCA and CPA Ireland.
Des O'Neill
OmniPro
Having worked for a number of years in practice, Des O’Neill co-founded OmniPro to develop tools, techniques, products and services, empowering accountants to achieve their best. Over 15 years, he has grown the company to a multi-million-euro turnover business and established OmniPro as Ireland’s largest independent provider of CPD for accountants.
Des speaks regularly, at national and international fora, on practice development, auditing, accounting, company law and regulation. He is passionate about bringing innovation to the profession and empowering accountants to achieve what they want in their careers and practice.
Daragh O’Shaughnessy
Tax Advisor
Daragh has provided expert tax advice to a diverse range of personal and corporate clients, from sole traders to High Net Worth investors and SMEs to multinationals for 15 years. His CPD lectures and articles view tax issues from a practical perspective that can put to immediate use in attendees’ day-to-day business, as well as using technical analysis for a deeper understanding of the issues.
Yvonne O'Sullivan
OmniPro
Yvonne is a key member of our technical support team, providing advice on all tax heads in response to queries submitted through our Knowledge Hub platform. In addition, she provides support within the tax department on tax planning, restructuring and exit planning solutions for a range of clients.
A Chartered Certified Accountant, Yvonne trained and worked in small practice for a number of years followed by working for over 2 years in an independent Dublin based firm.
Colm Owens
OmniPro
As a member of our Practice Support team, Colm’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, prepare for monitoring visits and assist with post-monitoring visits follow-ups.
Colm brings a unique insight into the whole area of monitoring and compliance having spent the last 6 years as a quality reviewer with Chartered Accountants Ireland giving him an insight into how firms operate, the challenges facing firms and how firms are responding to current issues facing them and the profession.
Michael Smith
MG Smith & Co
Michael is the principal of his own company MG Smith & Co. He has over 25 years of tax experience and has held a number of senior positions with top Irish accounting practices.
He has significant experience advising on business start-ups and reconstructions. He has lectured and written widely for Chartered Accountants Ireland, the Irish Tax Institute and other professional bodies.
Rose Tierney
Tierney Tax Consultancy
Rose Tierney is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser in both the UK and Ireland. She previously worked as a director with a Big Four firm in Dublin and prior to that several years were spent in London advising businesses on tax planning and transactions.
In 2004, she established an independent Tax Practice Tierney Tax Consultancy and has since then been advising clients in the SME sector and their accountants and solicitors on various aspects of Irish and UK taxation.
Brendan Twohig
MK Brazil
Having worked with a portfolio of personal and corporate clients as a tax consultant since the late 1980’s, Brendan has gained a diverse experience with particular expertise in property structuring, tax-based investments, corporate restructuring, estate and succession planning.
Brendan is an experienced speaker and has written many tax-based articles.