Gerard Scully
Chairman
Gerard Scully
Gerard Scully worked for the Irish Stock Exchange (now Euronext Dublin) as Director of International Primary Markets and part of the senior management team at the Exchange for 16 years until March 2020. As Director of International Primary Markets he was responsible for the Debt and Funds listing businesses at the Exchange, where he built the business to become a global leader in the listing of fixed income, investment funds and structured products. Prior to joining the Exchange Gerard carried out a number of roles with Irish licenced banks as head of legal and compliance, including a 2 year term with Maxblue (a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank) as head of legal and compliance. From 1987 to 1997 Gerard worked as legal adviser with a number of London based banks covering the legal aspects of trading activity, derivatives and capital markets including a 6 year term with Swiss Bank Corporation. He worked on the first “euro” transaction. Gerard has served on the ESMA Consultative Working Group on Corporate Finance and was formerly a member of the Board of the Irish Auditing Standards Supervisory Authority. Gerard is qualified as a solicitor in Ireland and also in England and Wales.
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Stuart Alexander (UK Resident)
Stuart Alexander (British) is Founder and Chief Executive of GemCap UK Ltd, previously known as Gemini Investment Management Limited, 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 (Managing Director)
Conor Hoey is the Managing Director 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
Managing Director