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Kevin Murray
Alfred Nunan Jr.
Anthony O’Callaghan
AXA Financial, Inc.
Capital One Bank
Credit Suisse
In 2005, Kevin E. Murray was appointed executive vice president and CIO of AXA Financial, Inc. and member of the company’s Executive Management Committee. As executive vice president and CIO, Kevin directs all systems strategy and delivery towards the execution of its mission to become the industry leader. Over the past 25 years, Kevin has held a number of leadership roles in the technology industry with a significant focus on retiring legacy technologies and successfully implementing new strategic business systems. Prior to joining AXA, Kevin served as CIO of the American International Group. Kevin is a member of the American Ireland Fund New York Regional Advisory Board, the AT&T Technology Advisory Board, Hewlett Packard Advisory Board and the Enterprise Ireland’s Advisory Board. Kevin earned a BS in computer science with an emphasis in finance at Penn State University. He is a second-generation Irish American. All of his grandparents were born in West Cork and migrated to the Bronx, NY in the early 1900s. Kevin resides in New York City.
Alfred Nunan, Jr. is a senior vice president of Business Banking at Capital One Bank. He manages over one hundred business banking relationships for the bank and coordinates a team of bank product specialists. Despite the economic slowdown, Alfred continues to successfully develop new business for the bank, and credits his contacts within the Irish-American community for his continued success. Prior to joining Capital One Bank, Alfred worked for Deutsche Bank in the Leveraged Finance Portfolio Group and Allied Irish Bank in New York. Alfred is the president of the Irish Business Association and serves on the Board of Directors of the Morris Center YMCA. He served nine years on the active roll of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, a unit within the Army National Guard, and continues to serve as a nonactive member. Alfred is a thirdgeneration Irish American who traces his Irish roots to Castletown Conyers, Limerick. He is a graduate of The Hun School of Princeton and received a BS degree in economics from Monmouth University. He resides in Maplewood, NJ with his wife Anne and three children Bridget, Freddy and Denis.
John O’Donoghue Cowen & Co. L.L.C. John F. O’Donoghue is the head of equities at Cowen & Company L.L.C and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. As such, John oversees the firm’s research sales, sales trading, and all trading areas of the firm, along with strategic planning and expansion of the firm’s franchise. Prior to joining Cowen in 2005, John was managing director and co-head of trading at Credit Suisse First Boston and was a member of that firm’s Global Equity Operating Committee. Before that, he was a partner at Schroders PLC and spent 17 years working with Schroders, including six years as managing director. A native of County Down, John received an honors BSc degree in economics from Queen’s University in Belfast. He moved to the United States in 1980 and has been active in the American Ireland Fund, serving on the last seven chairman’s committees for the annual New York Gala. John also serves on the QUB Advisory Board (US) and is married to Debbie with two sons, John Patrick and Brendan.
Anthony “Tony” O’Callaghan is a director and relationship manager for Credit Suisse Private Banking USA, based in New York. Tony has over 26 years of experience as an investment professional. Prior to joining Credit Suisse (DLJ) in 1994, he was with Kidder, Peabody & Co. for 12 years. Tony’s focus is on providing wealth management solutions for corporations, foundations and pension plans as well as senior corporate officers, family offices and ultra high net worth and high net worth individuals. Tony is among the most senior advisors in Credit Suisse’s Private Banking USA with particular expertise in asset allocation and fixed income. He earned his BA in economics from Michigan State University. Tony is a fourth-generation Irish American whose great grandfather came to the United States in the late 19th century. His branch of the O’Callaghans traces back to County Mayo, where you can still see the ruins of the once great O’Callaghan castle. Tony and his wife Patti have three children: Anthony Ryan, Julia Britten and Bonnie Diane. They have all visited Ireland and speak to their friends there regularly.
James O’Sullivan
Declan Quirke
UBS
Cowen & Co. L.L.C.
James “Jim” O’Sullivan is a managing director and senior economist for UBS. While the collapse in US housing was more dramatic than expected, he had been forecasting significant weakening in sales and prices and spillover to the overall economy. Jim was co-ranked first in economics in the Institutional Investor survey of fixed-income investors in 2007 and 2008. He was named Forecaster of the Year for 2008 and 2006 by Dow Jones MarketWatch. Born in New York, Jim grew up in Co. Offaly. His father is from Limerick and his mother is from Cork. Jim says, “People in Ireland take an exceptional interest in political and socioeconomic developments. Growing up there stimulated that interest in me. As an economist, I am focused on the interactions among government policy, financial markets, and the economy.” Jim holds a BA in economics from Trinity College Dublin, where he achieved the distinction of Scholar, and an MA in economics from Queen’s University in Ontario. He lives in Manhattan with his Offalyborn wife, Margaret Molloy, a marketing executive, and their sons, Finn and Emmet.
Declan Quirke grew up in Dalkey and moved to the US for studies at Columbia. Declan, head of health care M&A for Cowen and Company, joined the firm in 2001 from Robertson Stephens where he was co-head of their East Coast M&A activities. Prior to Robertson, he was a managing director in PaineWebber’s M&A Group responsible for all of their technology and healthcare M&A. Declan focuses on Cowen’s Biotechnology, Specialty Pharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Services sectors in Europe and North America. He has originated and executed a large number of transactions across a range of geographies and sectors, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, exclusive sales, spin-offs and other assorted defense and financial advisory assignments. Declan received an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a BE in mechanical engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland. Prior to business school, he was a project engineer for Babcock Power PLC, a nuclear and defense contractor in the UK. Declan is married to Karen Murphy and they have four daughters and one son.
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