Meet Niall
Meet Niall O’Brien
Niall O’Brien is an Investment Consultant and Senior Finance Lecturer.
He helps investors to identify appropriate investment solutions and provides unbiased and bespoke financial education, mentoring and industry insight.
Niall has over 25 years of experience in Investment and Trading. He was Financial Planner with Fortis (ABN Amro) and Stockbroker with Prudential Securities in San Diego, California. Foreign Exchange and Stock Exchange Floor Dealer with Dolmen Securities (Cantor Fitzgerald) and Senior Portfolio Manager, Fund Manager and Partner with Davy, Ireland’s leading Stockbroker and Wealth Manager. In the interim he has consulted in the areas of Risk Management in the Hedge Fund industry and in Financial Regulation.
Niall now lectures internationally in investment and finance and is Adjunct Fellow in Trinity College Dublin where he lectures in International Finance on the Masters in Finance and MBA programmes and in Queens University Belfast. More recently Niall has led several funding rounds for leading medical technology companies and is immersed in the local technology start-up ecosystem. In addition he has Fintech and Pharma Services (Vaccine) industry interests also.
Niall is a Registered Representative of the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE), The Securities and Futures Authority (SFA), Euronext/Deutsche Boerse, The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and an Affiliate of the Chartered Insitute for Securities and Investment (CISI). He studied Applied Physics at The Dublin Institute of Technology, Capital Markets and Investment at Harvard School of Economics and Training and Education at Griffith College Dublin’s Centre for Academic Excellence.
Niall’s investment and education experience is unique which combined serves to provide clients with a truly unbiased and independent insight. His track record in investment and across asset classes is particularly strong and he is a multi-award winner of Trinity College’s Excellence in Teaching award. Niall is a strong communicator and favours an interactive and multi-media approach to teaching and learning to produce superior learning outcomes in students and outperformance for clients.
Trinity College
Trinity Business School – Ireland’s leading business school
Queens University
Queen’s Management School – A world leading business school
Harvard University
Harvard University School of Economics
25 Years
of Investment Experience
15 Years
of Educating
Outperformance
Superior track record across asset classes
Med Tech
Niall studied Applied Physics in university and completed his thesis in biophysics (audiology). He is now immersed in the local technology ecosystem and has led serveral funding rounds for leading local medical technology companies and has fintech and pharma (vaccine) industry interests.
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