FORESTHILL - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Financial Planner
• Founding Member of the Trusted Advisor Group
• QFA ( Managing Director )

Brian is a highly experienced financial planner, having advised corporate and individual clients for over 20 years now. Brian employs a structured and robust approach to financial and investment planning, helping clients to identify their financial objectives, and ultimately to achieve them. Before setting up FFP (Foresthill Financial Planning) he worked with The Prestige Group and prior to that he was Financial Planning Manager with Bank of Ireland Private Banking. He has gained broad experience of the market, working with some leading Financial institutions such as Norwich Union, Progressive Life and Irish Permanent. He is an Agricultural Science Graduate from UCD and also is a QFA and has a C.Pen(Dip) from the Pensions Management Institute. Brian is also a founding member of the Trusted Advisor Group, a leading network of financial planners in Ireland.

Ronnie has been working in the Fund Management Industry for almost 30 years having started in regulation with the London Stock Exchange in 1990. He worked for 2 of the largest fund managers in Ireland before joining Deutsche Asset Management (4th largest in the world at the time) in 2001, where his roles varied from back office in compliance and fund accounting to front office portfolio management and sales. In addition to providing lifestyle financial planning advice to business owners, he also gives financial and tax advice to SMEs. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (ACA) and a Qualified Financial Advisor (QFA). Ronnie took up his first Board position of a regulated investment business firm in 2005 with Barclays and to date has sat on the Board of 9 different regulated entities. In 2003 he took a few years out of the industry to act as Finance Director of an international on-line travel business that floated on the AIM market in London in 2004, successfully raising $44m in the process.