ISIF Team
Nick Ashmore
Director
Nick Ashmore is the Director of ISIF. From 2015 to 2021 he served as Chief Executive of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI). He originally joined the NTMA as part of the team managing the National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) in 2006.
Ciara Lehane
Deputy Director - Head of Operations
Ciara is Deputy Director – Head of Operations. She leads the ISIF team tasked with the operational management of the fund, and is responsible for coordinating strategy development, communications and market engagement, change management, systems, finance and risk in conjunction with the relevant NTMA functions.
Mary Macnamara
Deputy Director - Head of Portfolio Management
Mary is Head of Portfolio Management and Deputy Director. Mary leads the Portfolio Management team in the management of asset allocation, investment monitoring, risk and performance measurement as well as ESG oversight.
Brian O'Connor
Senior Investment Director
Brian is a Senior Investment Director and leads the team making ISIF’s investments to support Scaling Indigenous Businesses. This includes investments in a range of growth equity, private equity and alternative debt funds, as well as ISIF’s direct equity and debt investments into scaling Irish businesses.
Cathal Fitzgerald
Senior Investment Director
Cathal is a Senior Investment Director and leads a team with responsibility for investments in the Food and Agriculture sector. The ISIF Food and Agriculture portfolio covers a broad range of sectors and seeks to support Irish companies to scale and grow internationally using a range of tailored financial solutions.
Paul Saunders
Senior Investment Director
Paul is a Senior Investment Director and Head of Climate and Venture Capital. Paul leads a team focussed on ISIF’s climate and venture capital agenda.
Sarah Hickey
Senior Investment Director
Sarah is a Senior Investment Director and leads the ISIF Real Assets team responsible for the implementation of ISIF’s Housing and Enabling Investment strategy. This includes investments and initiatives across commercial and residential real estate, large scale urban regeneration projects and infrastructure.
Donal Murphy
Senior Investment Specialist
Donal is a Senior Investment Specialist, focused on projects in and around Ireland’s Ports and Harbours which enable and support the emerging Offshore Renewable Energy sector. Investments in this area include core port infrastructure as well as related investments which can ensure Ireland captures maximum value from the offshore renewables sector.
Saoirse O'Connor
Senior Investment Director - Head of Irish Portfolio Management
Saoirse is responsible for the overall monitoring and management of ISIF’s Irish Investment Portfolio from financial close to exit. Saoirse leads a team of investment professionals who are responsible for monitoring the financial and economic performance of Irish investments.
Mikael Langstrom
Investment Director
Mikael is an Investment Director in the Portfolio Management Team. Mikael has responsibility for risk management, portfolio monitoring and performance analysis.
Deborah Meghen
Investment Director
Deborah is responsible for Sustainable and Responsible Investment at the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, working with the investment teams overseeing ESG and Climate related reporting and strategies.
Jer Lyne
Investment Director
Jeremiah Lyne is an Investment Director leading the Risk Management team in ISIF. Jer has overall responsibility for risk management, portfolio monitoring and performance analysis.
Fiona Leheny
Investment Director
Fiona is the Investment Director leading the Data Analytics and Management Information team. Fiona is responsible for ISIF’s data related activities including data analytics, data quality and governance across investment, portfolio management and other operational processes.
Evelyn Leen
Investment Director
Evelyn is the Investment Director leading the Global Portfolio team with responsibility for managing ISIF’s Global Portfolio and the National Reserve Fund.
James Brennan
Investment Director
James is an Investment Director on ISIF's Venture and Innovation Team. James has primary responsibility for the fund’s venture capital portfolio.
Brendan Byron
Investment Director
Brendan is an Investment Director for the ISIF Real Assets team responsible for the origination, execution, and monitoring of direct and indirect investments under ISIF’s Housing and Enabling Investment strategy. This includes investments and initiatives across commercial and residential real estate, large scale urban regeneration projects and infrastructure.
Georgina Murphy
Investment Director
Georgina leads life science investment for the ISIF, covering limited partnership commitments to a portfolio of life science venture funds and direct equity investment, where ISIF seeks to provide patient capital to scaling Irish businesses.
Liam McGrath
Investment Director
Liam is an Investment Director in ISIF’s Indigenous Business team. Liam’s primary focus is on investments that support the growth of Irish businesses, including commitments to Irish and international funds and direct investments in businesses across a range of sectors.
John Harrington
Investment Director
John is a member of the Climate investment team in ISIF. John’s responsibilities include the origination, execution and monitoring of ISIF’s investments across the Climate landscape, from renewables and other sustainable infrastructure assets to earlier stage climate technology commitments.
Will Atkinson
Investment Director
Will Atkinson is an Investment Director on the Food and Agriculture team. Will is responsible for direct equity, debt, and indirect fund investments seeking to deliver on ISIF’s Food and Agriculture strategy
Adrian Byrne
Senior Investment Manager
Adrian is a Senior Investment Manager focused on investments that support the growth of indigenous Irish businesses. This includes the origination, execution, and monitoring of investments to a range of Irish and international funds, as well as ISIF’s direct equity and debt investments across a wide range of sectors.
Ciaran Tobin
Senior Investment Manager
Ciaran is a Senior Investment Manager in ISIF's Housing and Enabling Investments team. Ciaran works on a range of infrastructure, corporate and fund-based transactions, taking lead roles in deal structuring and negotiation.
Darren Laheen
Senior Investment Manager
Darren is a Senior Investment Manager on the Food, Agriculture and Marine team. Darren’s main focus is on direct equity, debt, and fund investments across numerous sectors including food, agriculture, marine, and mining.
David Byrne
Senior Investment Manager
David is a Senior Investment Manager on the ISIF Climate Team. David focuses on investments in renewable energy generation, energy storage and other infrastructure enabling decarbonisation, as well as financing for the growth of climate technology companies.
Elaine O'Keeffe
Senior Investment Manager
Elaine O’Keeffe is a Senior Investment Manager on ISIF’s Global Portfolio Team. With a focus on global listed assets, Elaine’s areas of responsibility include strategy development, portfolio construction, investment research, manager selection and oversight and day-to-day portfolio management.
Frank Dorgan
Senior Investment Manager
Frank is a member of the Scaling Indigenous Businesses team in ISIF. His primary focus is the sourcing and evaluation of a wide range of investment opportunities in growth capital, private equity and debt funds, as well as direct equity and debt investments into businesses, across a wide range of industries and sectors.
John Cantwell
Senior Investment Manager
John is a Senior Investment Manager in the Indigenous Businesses investment team. John leads ISIF’s Financial Services sector investments including direct equity and debt investments in non-bank lenders and in the fin-tech sector and its commitments to debt funds.
Marianne Nolan
Senior Investment Manager
Marianne leads strategy and change management within the Business Operations team for ISIF. She is responsible for supporting the development of investment and enabling strategies, and delivery of transformation initiatives for the fund.
Morgan Slattery
Senior Investment Manager
Morgan is a Senior Investment Manger on the ISIF Real Assets team. Morgan’s primary focus is on the origination, evaluation, and execution of a range of direct and indirect residential, commercial real estate, and infrastructure transactions.
Nigel Purcell
Senior Investment Manager
Nigel works as a Senior Investment Manager as part of the ISIF Climate Team which aims to crowd in climate related capital and expertise into the Irish market. He works on developing the Irish climate ecosystem through direct and fund investments across all stages of a company’s lifecycle.
Patrick O'Regan
Senior Investment Manager
Patrick is a Senior Investment Manager focussed on investments that support the growth of indigenous Irish businesses. This includes investments in a range of Irish and international funds and direct investments in businesses across a range of sectors.
Peter Lynch
Senior Manager - ISIF Business Applications & Change
Peter is Senior Manager for the ISIF Business Application Team. He leads a team responsible for application support and change within the ISIF, managing and enhancing ISIF’s technology capability.
Róisín O'Shea
Senior Investment Manager
Róisín is a Senior Investment Manager in the Food and Agri team. Róisín is focused on the agrifood sector including looking at companies at the scaling stage.
Sean Mulvany
Senior Investment Manager
Sean is a Senior Investment Manager in the Food and Agriculture team in ISIF. He is tasked with discovery and evaluation of venture fund and direct investment opportunities in agtech, foodtech, circular bioeconomy and climate solutions.
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