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July 21, 2009
New Chapter Opening in Ireland
PRMIA announces today a new chapter in Ireland. Leading the chapter will be Co-Regional Director Justin McCarthy. Justin, a VP with Bank of America - Merrill Lynch is a former employee of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has been a PRMIA sustaining member since 2006 and is currently working toward obtaining his PRM.
Roger Kumra, the other Co-Regional Director, will be unable to take up the position due to his move to Cyprus. PRMIA would like to thank Roger for all of his work in establishing the Irish chapter. His motivation, energy, enthusiasm and drive accomplished an incredible amount in the last few months. In addition to already holding two events he and Justin have been able to recruit an excellent steering committee and establish a strategy for the chapter to provide many future opportunities for the Irish membership. Justin and Roger are working with the current steering committee to find another Co-Regional Director.
PRMIA thanks the current Steering Committee members for their work in helping to establish the chapter:
•Professor John Cotter, Director of Centre for Financial Markets, UCD School of Business, University College Dublin
•Peter Crilly, Director of Operational Risk, Bank of Scotland Ireland
•Keith McCarthy, IT Audit Manager, Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited
•Nicholas Pratt, Freelance Journalist
•Alberto Ulloa, Senior Manager, Enterprise Risk Services, Deloitte & Touche
The chapter's mission is to propagate the leading edge risk management expertise and ideas, to provide a forum for learning by sharing and discussion, and to encourage and facilitate our members to demonstrate their credibility by the use of established certification. The chapter's goals include:
•To hold a number of talks (initially four) aimed at a mass (risk management) audience.
•To provide the facility for our members to hold ad hoc meetings (focus groups and presentations) to address particular needs, for example to better understand the impact of a new regulatory directive.
•To provide opportunities for our members to leverage off of each other to gain a better understanding of the content of the PRM and APRM.
•To increase the understanding of 'modern' risk management practice within Ireland.
•To push PRMIA membership within Ireland to all areas of financial risk management.
•To create links to academics and academic institutions. This should enhance the status and relevance of relevant research in Ireland and bring more theoretical aspects into risk management in Ireland (with the clear understanding that a good understanding of the business is essential for all risk management decision making)
PRMIA wishes Justin success in his new role and looks forward to seeing activities in Ireland. We wish Roger all the best in his move and thank him immensely for his work in creating the chapter.
If you are interested in receiving information about the Ireland chapter including event invitations, please edit your profile to include the Ireland chapter. Steps to do this are:
•Login to your PRMIA useraccount
•Click the 'manage my profile' link underneath the welcome message
•Click the 'edit my profile' link
•In the chapter listings tick the box next to the Ireland chapter
•Scroll down and click the update button
Posted by kgittins at July 21, 2009 10:59 AM
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