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Conor Kennedy is a Barrister and Chartered Tax Adviser. Conor is a former Tax Appeals Commissioner and has presided over tax disputes valued in excess of €2.5 billion and is now with EY Law Ireland responsible for Tax Strategy and Disputes.

Paul Murphy is a taxation consultant and management accountant for Martin J. Kelly & Co. He is a corporation tax lecturer for the Irish Taxation Institute and is an Associate of both the Irish Taxation Institute and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Paul is a co-author of the Irish Taxation Institute’s annual publication, Irish Taxation Law and Practice

Niall brings a wealth of experience across various tax areas, including corporate restructuring, succession planning, business acquisitions and disposals, tax due diligence, and corporate and personal tax compliance. Niall comes from a top 6 firm which has undergone rapid market growth over the last number of years bringing a wealth of knowledge from that fast-paced environment.

Niall's expertise extends to a wide range of industries, including retail, agriculture, manufacturing, hospitality, professional services, and more. Additionally, his background in tax, combined with experience providing accounting advise surrounding transactions, makes him a valuable asset to our team.

Tom qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) in 1997 whilst working with Chase Manhattan Bank. Tom has over 20 years experience in accounting and business roles.

He is one of Ireland’s most experienced corporate recovery and turnaround practitioners and was one of the first Personal Insolvency Practitioners licensed in Ireland.

He also is an experienced Corporate Financier with particular interest and expertise in the area of equity and debt fund raising, and the buying and selling of businesses.

He is heavily involved with the ACCA accountancy body and is a past President of ACCA Ireland. He represented ACCA Ireland at the ACCA International Assembly in 2011. He was nominated in January 2021 by ACCA to represent it on the the CCABI insolvency Committee.

He is authorised to act as a Personal Insolvency Practitioner by the Insolvency Service of Ireland.

Orla Carolan – Head of Consulting Orla joined Future Planet in May 2024 as Head of Consulting. Prior to this Orla was an Advisory Director in Grant Thornton Ireland. From 2019 Orla was Head of Finance Advisory leading out on advisory projects with large banking, insurance and asset management clients in financial reporting, risk and regulatory related projects. More recently Orla initiated and led out on a newly established CSRD service offering within the sustainability advisory practice. As part of this role Orla worked with large clients across multiple sectors (financial services, retail, technology) on CSRD scoping, training, double materiality assessments, gap analysis and implementation planning. Previous to joining Grant Thornton Orla gained 15+ years’ experience in financial services and held a senior management position with JPMorgan Bank Ireland as Head of Financial Reporting for its hedge fund administration business in Ireland. Orla holds a B.A. in Business and Economics (TCD), is a Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and is also a Certified Investment Fund Director (CIFD). Orla is also a qualified Executive Coach & Trainer (QQI Accredited).

Barry is a former army officer, who served with the United Nations on multiple deployments. He trained with leading law firm Arthur Cox, before going on to establish the Dublin and London offices of a US law firm. Barry holds a BA in Law and Politics, LLM in Business Law, LLM in Dispute Resolution, MPhil in Linguistics and an Advanced Diploma in Employment Law. His Doctorate in Law thesis examines the case conditions that typically lead to a successful claim before the Workplace Relations Commission. Barry is qualified to practice law in Ireland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales and is a member of the American Bar Association.

Maura is a highly accredited Senior Practitioner and Master Coach, Trainer and Facilitator with over 18 years’ experience coaching at C Suite to middle management high potential level. Maura’s clients include Professional firms, State and Semi-State Sector, Multi-national, and indigenous Irish companies, such as HSE, AGS and Revenue, Not-For-Profit, Academic, Financial Institutions, Pharmaceutical, Construction, Retail, Marketing/Branding, FMCG.

Maura’s coaching practice focuses on releasing potential, enhancing leadership skills and developing mental mastery and fitness. Her coaching programs and expertise are complemented by her dedication to achieving sustainable change and performance improvement.

As a head of Strategic Solutions at OmniPro, Lindsay’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, providing in-house training and technical assistance in audit and financial reporting.

Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.

Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting from Chartered Accountants Ireland.