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Marianne Brown
Omgeo L.L.C.
Marianne C. Brown is president and CEO of
Omgeo L.L.C. Marianne is an accomplished chief
executive with a proven track record of driving
revenue and income growth within complex global
organizations. Prior to joining Omgeo in 2006,
Marianne served as CEO of Securities Industry Automation
Corporation. She began her career in 1978 at Automatic Data
Processing, Brokerage Services Group, now known as Broadridge
Financial Services, where she remained until 2005. Throughout her
26 years at ADP, she held numerous positions that provided a broad
swath of experience. Marianne has been profiled extensively in the
press, in outlets such as CNBC’s Squawk Box, The Wall Street
Journal, and Wall Street & Technology.
A native of Brooklyn, NY, Marianne is a graduate of Concordia
College with a degree in business. Marianne is a second-generation
Irish American, and her father's side of the family came from County
Fermanagh. She lives in Westchester, NY with her husband and son.
Christopher
Condron
AXA Financial
Christopher M. “Kip” Condron
was elected president and CEO of
AXA Financial, Inc. and a member
of the AXA Group
Management Board in 2001. In
addition, Kip is chairman of the
board, president and CEO of
AXA Financial’s principal insurance
subsidiary, AXA Equitable
Life Insurance Company, and is
responsible for AllianceBernstein,
AXA’s majority owned Asset
Management firm. Kip joined
The Boston Company in 1989 as
vice chairman and head of the
Private Client Group. Prior to
joining the Boston Company, he
was co-president of AYCO, the
financial and tax planning subsidiary
of
American
Express, which
acquired his
Pittsburgh-based
firm, Condron
Associates.
Kip is on the
board of AllianceBernstein
Corporation and AXA Financial,
Inc., a member of the Financial
Services Roundtable and chairman
of its Board of Directors. He
is a director of The American
Ireland Fund and also serves as
treasurer and chairman of its
Executive Committee.
Married with three children,
Kip is a third-generation Irish
American with roots in counties
Donegal and Cork.
Don Connelly
Don Connelly &
Associates
Don Connelly, perhaps the
nation’s most successful advisor
to the retail brokerage industry,
has long been a powerful beacon
of wisdom to
investors and
financial services
professionals.
His career on
Wall Street spans
nearly 40 years
and includes
positions as
stock broker, financial planner,
branch manager, wholesaler, and
national sales manager, and for
nearly 19 years he was company
spokesperson, senior vice president
and senior marketing officer
for Putnam. Now, as founder of
CampConnelly.com, an extraordinary
‘e-boot camp,’ Don’s timely
and provocative sales ideas are
available to thousands of financial
professionals around the
globe. Audiences at England’s
Cambridge University, Harvard,
Wharton School of Business,
Chapman College and
Pepperdine have all benefited
from his presentations.
Offering practical guidance to
financial services professionals,
Don is known as a guru on managing
client relationships, selling
and becoming a successful financial
advisor.
A third-generation Irish
American, Don says, “Being of
Irish descent makes me stand just
a bit taller.”
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Mary Ann
Callahan
Depository Trust &
Clearing Corporation
Mary Ann Callahan, managing
director of global relations and
development at DTCC, has for
over 20 years cultivated
DTCC’s strategic business relationships
and links with other
market infrastructures.
She
served as head
of DTCC’s
London office
for four years,
and as president
of the Americas’
Central Securities Depositories
Association since 2007, she
leads a regional forum of 25
national market infrastructures.
A third-generation Irish
American, Mary Ann earned a
BA at Manhattanville College
and an MBA in finance at
NYU’s Stern School of
Business. Her maternal grandfather,
whose parents emigrated
from Dublin, served with the
Fighting 69th during WWI.
During her childhood, her
grandfather marched each year
with his Irish-heritage regiment
at the front of NY’s St. Patrick’s
Day Parade. Her paternal greatgrandparents
hailed from Mayo.
Regularly in touch with
Invest Northern Ireland’s NY
team, Mary Ann is also a keen
supporter of International
Center in New York, Covenant
House and Iona College.
Charles Carey
CME Group Inc.
Charles P. “Charlie” Carey is vice
chairman of CME Group, a company
formed by the 2007 merger
of the Chicago Board of Trade
(CBOT) with the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange. Today,
CME Group is the largest derivatives
exchange in the world, with
operations in over 85 countries.
Earlier, Charlie was chairman of
the CBOT from 2003 until
assuming his current position at
CME Group in July 2007.
Previously, he served on the
CBOT Board of Directors for
eleven years in various roles,
including vice chairman, first
vice chairman and full member
director. An independent futures
trader, Charlie became a member
of CBOT in 1978 and is a partner
in the firm Henning and Carey.
In 2007, Charlie was presented
with the Oak Park and River
Forest High
School Tradition
of Excellence
Award and earlier
that year with
the Western
Illinois
University
Distinguished Alumni Award for
his business and professional
accomplishments. He is president
of the Chicagoland Sports Hall of
Fame, an organization that provides
scholarships for underprivileged
youths.
A lifelong resident of Chicago,
Charlie received a BA degree in
business administration from
Western Illinois University.
Brendan Connolly
UBS Investment Bank
Brendan Connolly is a managing director and head
of Leveraged Capital Markets for UBS Investment
Bank in New York. In this role, he manages UBS's
Global High Yield Bond and Loan Capital Markets
activities and is a member of the Credit/Fixed
Income Management Committee and the IBD Americas Executive
Committee.
Brendan received a BA in economics from Rutgers University and
an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School. Prior to his current
position, Brendan worked for Credit Suisse Group in New York.
He joined UBS's High Yield Syndicate group in 2004, with responsibility
for the firm's High Yield underwriting risk.
A Bronx native, Brendan is married with three children. He is a
first-generation Irish American and very proud of his Irish heritage.
His father John hails from Tyholland, County Monaghan and is the
proprietor of the popular Connolly's midtown Manhattan pubs; his
mother Mary hails from Irishtown, County Mayo.
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