Patrick Shallow

Managing Director

A former senior banker with extensive experience of corporate and retail banking, in Ireland and in South Africa, Patrick Shallow founded Finalysis Ltd in 1990 to assist major Irish corporates in the management of their banking and treasury requirements. In 2002, together with a number of senior bankers in London, he then establised Finalysis UK Ltd and, in 2005, with a team of Johannesburg treasurers and bankers, established Finalysis South Africa.

Prior to forming Finalysis , Patrick was managing director of the Metropolitan Building society and, earlier, deputy md of the Finance house , Chartered Trust Ireland . In South Africa he worked as economist with Standard Bank of SA, specialising in the analysis of Bank branch performance and profitability .

Arising from studies prompted by his work with Chartered Trust, Patrick established the company Credit Expo Ltd to promote the ECM methodology and patented software product, designed to assist lenders to manage credit risk in instalment lending.

Patrick has presented regularly on Banking at University College, Dublin, also to the Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers. He is a regular contributor to Finance Magazine and to Global Treasury News. Patrick holds a B.Comm (Law and Economics) degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, an M.Sc. from Trinity College, Dublin and has recently completed his PhD on credit risk at the Smurfit Business School.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers of South Africa.

Dr. Dennis Jennings

Chairman

Dr. Dennis Jennings has a wide and varied career:-

Venture Capital: Co-Founder of 4th Level Ventures (2002 to present) – a small (€17 million) Irish Venture Capital company whose primary objective is to invest in companies commercialising the business opportunities that arise from university research in Ireland (www.4lv.ie).

University/Research IT Management: Director of University College Dublin (UCD, www.ucd.ie) Computing Services from 1977 to 1999, with responsibility for the university IT infrastructure and a staff of over 90 people.

The Internet: A member of the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, www.icann.org), and serves as Chairman of the ICANN Board Governance Committee.

An Internet pioneer: Responsible for the decisions that developed NSFNET (1985/86), the US research internet that evolved into the Internet, while working for the US Federal Government (on leave from UCD). Actively involved in the start-up of research networks in the Europe (EARN – President; Ebone – Board member) and

Research: Holds a Ph.D. degree for research into sources of high-energy gamma radiation from pulsars (neutron stars) (1972), and a 1st Class honours physics B.Sc. degree, from University College Dublin (1967).

Dennis is chairman both of the Finalysis Group and also of Finalysis' sister company Credit Expo, where he is also an investor