Niall O'Brien
Email obrienn5@tcd.ieBiography
Niall O’Brien is an Investment Consultant and Senior Finance Lecturer.
He helps technology companies to raise finance and investors to identify suitable investment solutions and provides unbiased and bespoke financial education and industry insight.
Niall has thirty 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 at Trinity College Dublin where he lectures in International Finance on the MBA programme in Trinity Business School, in Trinity School of Engineering, in DCU’s School of Maths and formerly in Queens University Belfast. More recently he has helped lead several equity funding rounds for leading digital medical technology companies and has Fintech, Pharma Services and Energy Transition 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 GCD’s Centre for Academic Excellence.
Niall’s track record in both public and private investment and across asset classes is strong and he is a multi-award winner of Trinity College’s Excellence in Teaching award. He 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.