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DARRAGH MCCARTHY
FOUNDER & CEO
Darragh McCarthy is the CEO and Founder of FinTrU. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in 1994 and remained there until late 2012. During his time at Morgan Stanley, Darragh was based in London, Frankfurt and New York and held various responsibilities including Global COO for Institutional Securities, COO for EMEA, Head of Fixed Income Sales North America and Head of Fixed Income Sales EMEA.
In 2013 Darragh founded FinTrU recognising the increasing demand from Global Investment Banks for high-quality resources to navigate the ever-increasing regulatory landscape. Whilst managed as a profit-driven organisation, Darragh also considers FinTrU as having a social purpose to create high-quality professional employment on the island of Ireland.
Darragh has a First Class Honours BComm International from University College of Dublin, Ireland. He has been nominated for EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018. Darragh speaks fluent German and Dutch.
DARRAGH MCCARTHY
FOUNDER & CEO
Darragh McCarthy is the CEO and Founder of FinTrU. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in 1994 and remained there until late 2012. During his time at Morgan Stanley, Darragh was based in London, Frankfurt and New York and held various responsibilities including Global COO for Institutional Securities, COO for EMEA, Head of Fixed Income Sales North America and Head of Fixed Income Sales EMEA.
In 2013 Darragh founded FinTrU recognising the increasing demand from Global Investment Banks for high-quality resources to navigate the ever-increasing regulatory landscape. Whilst managed as a profit-driven organisation, Darragh also considers FinTrU as having a social purpose to create high-quality professional employment on the island of Ireland.
Darragh has a First Class Honours BComm International from University College of Dublin, Ireland. He has been nominated for EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018. Darragh speaks fluent German and Dutch.
RICHARD MCGUINNESS
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Richard has over 15 years’ experience in the financial services industry having worked in technology, operations and senior leadership roles during that time.
Prior to joining FinTrU Richard ran the Information Services Group in Citi Belfast. He was responsible for a group of 200+ people across technology and operations functions in the reference data (product, price, account) space, as well as Client On-boarding and KYC functions for EMEA Markets clients. Richard was also a key member of the Citi Belfast Senior Leadership Team, responsible for growing and developing the Citi Belfast site from its inception in 2005 to over 2,000 employees in 2017.
At FinTrU Richard is a member of the Executive Leadership team and is responsible for ensuring the effective operation of all our teams, successful delivery to our clients, development of all our people and providing senior leadership to the management team and the whole organisation.
Richard has a BSc Hons Computer Science Degree, awarded by Ulster University, Jordanstown.