People
Paul Coady
Founder & CEO
Paul has over 25 years of experience in business ethics, compliance, anti-financial crime, and related learning and development practice. He has held senior industry roles including Business Ethics, Policies & Training Manager for AIB Bank, Global Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) for DBRS, Group Head of Compliance Policy & Learning for Barclays, and Global Head of Financial Crime Risk Education & Culture for Deutsche Bank. Paul has worked in Dublin, London, and New York and led teams and regulatory transformation across the UK, US, EMEA, APAC and Africa. He is also an international speaker and thought leader regularly promoting the people-side of compliance and anti-financial crime. Paul holds an MSc. in Education & Training Management from Dublin City University (DCU) and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Licentiate of the Compliance Institute of Ireland (LCI), and a Fellow of the Learning & Performance Institute (FLPI).
Peter Kiernan
Senior Advisor & Consultant
Peter has an extensive legal, regulatory, and anti-financial crime career working in law enforcement, industry practice, and consultancy. His particular strengths include legal and regulatory interpretation, building anti-fraud and anti-financial crime programmes, financial crime investigations, and enforcement and remediation. Peter has held senior roles as Principal Legal Officer with HM Inland Revenue, Deputy Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Senior Solicitor with Axiom, and Director at KPMG. He has also held roles supporting regulatory examination management at BNY Mellon and as the FCA approved Interim Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) at Pershing Securities. Peter is a qualified Solicitor and holds an LLB in Law from the University of Westminster and an LLM in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Sean Wade
Senior Advisor & Consultant
Sean has an extensive career in regulatory and compliance practice and working closely with the highest levels of organisations. His areas of particular focus include corporate governance, authorisation/supervision, culture, business ethics, and education. Sean has held senior roles as a regulator with the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), Head of Compliance for VHI, and Company Secretary, Head of Compliance, and Group Director for Friends First. He was also a founding member and former President of the Compliance Institute of Ireland, now the leading professional compliance education body in Ireland, and is a regular lecturer on banking, insurance and regulation with the Institute of Bankers in Ireland (IOB). Sean holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor in Financial Services, and Masters in Business Studies (Finance) from University College Dublin (UCD) and is an Honorary Fellow of the Compliance Institute of Ireland.