Maurice Murphy
Chairman
(Independent) (Irish resident)
Maurice Murphy (Independent) (Irish resident)
Maurice is a full time professional independent director exclusively focused on the investment funds sector.
He has extensive international experience in traditional and alternative funds having previously headed up the risk management function at a leading investment funds governance and consultancy firm in Ireland. Maurice also served as an Executive Director of its AIFM & UCITS Management Company entity.
Prior to that, Maurice was at Credit Suisse where he was Head of the Fund Linked Products desk in Dublin. Previously he spent a number of years with ABN Amro Bank (Ireland) Limited as Head of Risk Management. He began his career in London, working for Morgan Stanley and UBS.
Maurice holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Hons) and a Post Graduate Master of Business Studies (Hons) from University College Dublin. He is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Charterholder. He is also an Associate Member (ACSI) of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI).
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Stuart Alexander (UK Resident)
Stuart Alexander (British) is Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Gemini Investment Management Ltd, authorised and regulated by the FCA, which commenced business in 2009.
He has over 30 years’ experience in the fund management industry and previously was Managing Director, Close Investments (2005-2007), HBOS’s Asset Management, Director (2001–2005), Invesco Fund Managers Ltd, Sales Director (1996–2001), Singer & Friedlander Investment Management Ltd, Director (1992-1996), Morgan Grenfell (1988–1992) and Gartmore (1986–1988).
During his career Stuart has successfully launched a number of businesses in the asset management industry and has overseen the growth of many of these businesses in the UK and Globally.
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Stuart Alexander
(UK resident)
Conor Hoey (Irish resident)
Conor Hoey is the Head of Sales and Relationship Management for GemCap. Having graduated from Trinity College Dublin (1992), Conor joined Prudential Corporation in London as a graduate trainee and worked in a range of areas from UK sales and marketing to Corporate Strategy, being a key part of the team that set up the UK’s first Internet Bank, Egg, in 1998. He then worked in Investment Consultancy for Bacon & Woodrow, advising asset managers on DC pension strategies and The UK Financial Services Authority on investment performance.
He joined Mellon Bank in 2000 and headed up their UK and Irish Sales and Relationship team in the Fund Administration sector, thereby having his first foray into the Irish funds sector.
Following a short spell as a Director at Capita PLC in the mid-2000s, he joined Royal Bank of Canada in 2008 and headed up their Sales and Relationship team in the UK, in particular focusing on growing RBC’s business in Ireland.
Having lived in the UK from 1992, Conor moved back to Dublin with his family in August 2015. Conor is a holder of the Investment Management Certificate and is a Certified Investment Fund Director with the Irish Institute of Banking.
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Conor Hoey
(Irish resident)