CFO Summit 2025: Hosted by EY, in partnership with the Financial Times

Paschal Donohoe TD
Minister for Finance

Paschal Donohoe is the Minister for Finance. He was appointed to this role on 23 January 2025. Before this, he served as Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform.

As Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, Paschal was responsible for delivering well-managed and well-targeted public spending, through modernised, effective and accountable public services. The department oversees the implementation of the National Development Plan, drives the programme of public service reform, and has a key role in decisions made across Government.

Minister Donohoe was elected President of the Eurogroup of finance ministers in July 2020 for a two-and-a-half-year term. He was re-elected in December 2022, beginning his second mandate in January 2023.

Anna Dunn
CEO, UK JP Morgan and EMEA CFO, JP Morgan Chase

Anna Dunn has been the EMEA CFO of JP Morgan Chase since 2019 and was appointed UK JP Morgan CEO for the Commercial and Investment Bank in 2024.  She has over 25 years’ experience at the firm.  External to JP Morgan, Anna is the Chair of the UK Finance Capital Markets & Wholesale Board, a member of the City of London Competitiveness Advisory Board, and is on the PRA Practitioner Panel.  Anna holds a B.A. from Cornell University, is a CFA charter holder and holds a FT Non-Executive Director Diploma. Anna resides in London and Herefordshire with her husband and three children.

Dr Lollie Mancey
Anthropologist, Futurist, and Innovation Advocate

Dr Lollie Mancey is an internationally acclaimed anthropologist, futurist, and cultural strategist, whose work spans the intersection of technology, human culture, and innovation. With a PhD in Organisational Learning and a career dedicated to decoding societal and technological shifts, she helps global organisations, policymakers, and entrepreneurs navigate the profound changes driven by artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.

As Programme Director and entrepreneurial specialist at University College Dublin’s Innovation Academy, Dr. Mancey empowers the next generation of innovators and business leaders with the tools to thrive in a rapidly evolving landscape. Her approach blends academic excellence—evident in her multiple teaching awards, including the UCD Excellence in Teaching Award 2022 & 2024—with real-world entrepreneurial success, as she holds directorships in three thriving businesses and champions underrepresented founders in the global entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Known for her ability to demystify complex technological trends, Dr. Mancey inspires audiences to reimagine the future of leadership, trust, and human flourishing. Her insights into how AI is reshaping cultural rituals—from work and relationships to ethics and death—are both thought-provoking and actionable. Whether helping organisations embed ethical principles into their digital transformations or guiding leaders to create inclusive spaces for innovation, her work bridges the gap between human-centred strategy and technological progress.

Grit Young
Partner, EY-Parthenon and Technology, Media & Entertainment and Telecommunications Industry Leader

Grit Young is a partner at EY-Parthenon and Technology, Media & Entertainment and Telecommunications Industry Leader for EY Ireland.

Steering EY Ireland's Technology, Media & Entertainment, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector, Grit’s role is pivotal in advancing our market position by fostering a robust TMT community and enhancing client relations. Grit leads through innovation, leveraging cross-functional team leadership to drive EY's growth.

As a qualified chartered accountant, Grit helps clients with assessing the value of their business, assets and financial instruments and those of potential acquisition targets in a commercial, legal, tax and financial reporting context.

Prior to joining EY Ireland, Grit spent 15 years in the UK market. Other international experience includes the US, Germany and Spain.

Ian Howells
Executive Vice President, Honda Motor Europe

Ian Howells is the Executive Vice President for Honda Motor Europe, the regional operation responsible for Honda’s bikes, cars and power product businesses in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Ian is a Chartered Accountant (Grant Thornton, Price Waterhouse Coopers) and spent many years working in sub–Saharan Africa, including projects for the World Bank and IMF. His career spans a number of industries and sectors as well as SMEs and multi-nationals including Johnson Controls and Ingersoll Rand. He sits on the CBI Southeast Council, formerly Chair and Vice Chair, and the CBI International Council. He is a Visiting Professorial Fellow (Engineering Management) at Aston University, Birmingham, UK; and also a member of the UK Automotive Council, an Enterprise Advisor in the Thames Valley and a mentor to a number of MBA students.

George Deegan
Partner, Assurance and CFO Programme Sponsor, EY

George is an Assurance Partner in EYs Industrial Commercial and Technology Group, a member of the Assurance leadership team and is the Partner Sponsor for EY’s CFO programme.

As the Global Engagement Partner for a number of listed clients and as the EMEIA Coordinating Partner for Fortune 100 companies, George coordinates and leads multidiscipline cross-border teams and resources. George is responsible for ensuring the highest service quality, seamless and consistent cross-border service and providing the right Industry and functional expertise and insights to his clients. In over 20 years at EY, he worked with clients listed on Dublin, London, Nasdaq and New York stock exchanges, supporting significant debt and other public equity offerings.

Prior to joining EY, he functioned as a manager for a tax and business services firm.

George is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and is a Member of the Institute of Taxation in Ireland.

Martina Keane
EY UK and Ireland Financial Services Leader

As EY’s UK & Ireland Financial Services Leader, Martina leads more than 300 partners and 6,000 people dedicated to serving the UK & Ireland financial services industry, and is responsible for some of the firm’s largest clients globally.

Martina joined EY in 1998 and has been a Partner since 2009. She is passionate about driving strategic transformation in financial services and developing diverse and high-performing teams. She held the role of EY’s EMEIA Financial Services Deputy Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer from 2021 – 2024, where she helped to shape the innovation of EY’s financial services business across the region. As an assurance professional, Martina also held the role of EY’s Ireland Financial Services Assurance Leader from 2017 – 2021.

Frank O’Keeffe
EY Ireland Managing Partner

Frank O'Keeffe has been EY Ireland Managing Partner since 2018 and in that role he continues to oversee a period of rapid growth for the firm across the island of Ireland.

Frank joined EY in 1997 and has held a series of leadership roles across Region, Service Line and Sector. Prior to taking up the role as Managing Partner at EY Ireland, he held a position on the Irish Leadership Team as Head of Assurance, serving a range of large national and multinational clients across the manufacturing, retail, technology and supply chain sectors.

Frank was the Partner Sponsor for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ program in Ireland between 2009 and 2014. He has also held the position of Diversity & Inclusion Partner Sponsor and continues to preside over EY Diversity & Inclusion Steering Committee in Ireland. Frank is the current Disability Partner Sponsor for the EY EMEIA region.

Domhnaill Hernon
EY Global Metaverse Labs Lead

Domhnaill Hernon is the Global Lead for the EY Metaverse Labs and the Global Lead for the Cognitive Human Enterprise. 

Previously, Domhnaill was a VP of Research and Innovation at Bell Labs, which is the research and innovation arm of Nokia. 

Domhnaill has an MBA from Dublin City University, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering in Aeronautical Engineering and a PhD in Aerodynamics from the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Marie Joyce
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, NTR plc

Marie is a seasoned leader in global investment, strategy, capital raising, finance and operations. Since 2013, she has been instrumental in shaping NTR’s clean energy strategy, overseeing the creation and launch of three European renewable investment funds and deploying over €1.9bn of capital. Before joining NTR, Marie worked with Élan Corporation plc and Arthur Andersen. She also served as Chair of the Board of Make-A-Wish Ireland. 

Marie is a director of daa plc, the Irish state-owned international airport and travel retail group with businesses in 16 countries, and Staycity Group, one of Europe’s leading aparthotel operators.

She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Galway, a Master of Accounting from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland.

Brendan Brennan
Chief Financial Officer, HBX Group

Brendan is a strategic-minded senior executive with broad experience of driving outperformance at revenue and earnings levels in global organisations. He has a proven track record of cost management, efficiency creation, and significant M&A experience, including deal sizes up to $12 billion.

Brendan has extensive background in public listed companies he was the CFO of ICON plc from 2011 to 2024, before taking up the role of Group CFO at HBX plc. He has worked with teams across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and has extensive experience working in both the US and European capital markets.

Prior to his role at HBX Group as Chief Financial Officer, Brendan held various senior positions in financial planning, corporate finance, and investor relations. He has also worked with ICON, CRH Plc and PWC.