In-person: Actuaries as Directors - Leveraging the actuarial skill set
The Director’s Interest Group of the Society of Actuaries will present on how core actuarial skills align with those needed to fulfill the role of a director of a company, including companies in adjacent and wider fields.
The event will include a presentation of how core actuarial skills align with those needed to fulfill the role of a director of a company. This presentation will be followed by a moderated panel discussion with a number of actuaries that currently hold directorships in wider and adjacent fields.
If you are currently a NED or INED, or if you aspire to take on such a role, then you will be interested to hear what our panel of speakers have to say and in particular how some actuaries have transitioned to directorship roles beyond the more traditional actuarial pathways to directorship roles.
Rosemary Commons
Rosemary is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland and an independent non-executive director with over 30 years’ experience in financial services. She serves on the boards of five financial institutions where she chairs Board Risk and Audit. She chairs the Directors’ Interest Group of the Society of Actuaries.
Aisling Kennedy
Aisling is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland and an independent non-executive director with over 40 years’ experience in financial services. She is chair of the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA) and MABS Support CLG as well as serving on the boards of a number of financial institutions and an actuarial consultancy firm. She is a member of the Society’s Sustainability and Climate Change Committee.
Roy Keenan
Roy is an experienced CEO working in financial services in UK and Ireland. He was CEO Bank of Ireland UK, Lifetime, New Ireland and Bank of Ireland Insurance Services and UK Post Office Financial Services. Roy is an experience INED having previously been INED/Chair of MetLife Europe, Irish Life Group, RSA Insurance/Reinsurance, Intesa San Paolo as well as various Government bodies.
Tony O’Riordan
Tony O'Riordan is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland and an Independent Non-Executive Director (INED), and currently sits on the Boards of five regulated financial services firms. His directorships are with Mercer Global Investments Europe Ltd, Aviva Insurance Ireland DAC (non-life insurance), St. James's Place UK PLC and St James's Place Investment Administration Ltd (both of which Tony chairs), and MetLife Europe DAC. He chairs Board Risk, Audit and Remuneration Committees. Tony has also recently joined the new Board of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, for which he chairs the Audit and Risk Committee.
Brian Grimes
Brian is a Fellow of Society of Actuaries in Ireland and is the Chief Executive of the Society. He has extensive experience of working as an actuary in the life assurance industry where he held a number of senior executive roles including that of Head of Actuarial Function.