IOB/Compliance Institute 20-year anniversary event

Derville Rowland

Director General Financial Conduct at Central Bank of Ireland and chair of ESMA’s Investment Management Standing Committee

Derville Rowland has been the Director General, Financial Conduct at the Central Bank since September 2017.

In her role she is responsible for overseeing Conduct supervision, which includes consumer protection, securities and markets supervision, and enforcement. Derville also serves as a member of both the management board and the board of supervisors of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and chairs its Investment Management Standing Committee.

 Derville is a board member of The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and is vice-chair of IOSCO’s European Regional Committee. Prior to her appointment to her current role, Derville was the Director of Enforcement in the Central Bank.

She also worked for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK as Regulatory Counsel and was a practising barrister in the UK.

Mary O'Dea

Chief Executive of IOB

Mary joined IOB in April 2018 from the Central Bank of Ireland where she was Director of Securities and Markets Supervision. She was previously Ireland's representative at the World Bank and prior to that held the role of Alternate Executive Director representing Ireland with the International Monetary Fund. Mary previously held several director roles with the Central Bank of Ireland, including Director of Financial Operations, Consumer Director and Acting Chief Executive of the Financial Regulator.

Diarmuid Whyte

President of Compliance Institute

Diarmuid Whyte has been a member of the Compliance Institute since 2013 and joined the Compliance Institute's Council in January 2017 and has been president of the Institute since January 2022.

He is Director EMEA Client Asset Oversight in Citi Bank. Previously he was Head of Compliance and Client Asset Oversight in Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland Limited. Prior to this Diarmuid was the Chief Risk Officer and Head of Compliance for Willis Towers Watson in Ireland. This position included direct responsibility for a MiFID regulated investment firm, three trustee businesses, three businesses operating as investment and insurance mediation firms for the provision of individual life, pension, investment advisory services and two non-life intermediaries providing a broad range of insurance services.

Diarmuid also worked for the Central Bank of Ireland, where he was a member of MiFID and Client Asset Inspection units from 2010 to 2013. Diarmuid qualified as a Chartered Accountant while working in KPMG in 2010 and is a Licentiate of Compliance Institute (LCI).

Sarah Browne

Chief Risk Officer and Head of Compliance for Stripe’s EMEA business

Sarah Browne is the Chief Risk Officer and Head of Compliance for Stripe’s EMEA business.  In this role she leads the enterprise risk and regulatory compliance team for the region.  Sarah joined Stripe in January 2021 and before this, worked with Bank of Ireland. 

Sarah held a variety of roles in Bank of Ireland across enterprise risk management, regulatory compliance, programme management, recovery and resolution planning, risk assurance and in the cards/payments lines of business.

Sarah holds a B.A. (Mod) Hons degree in Economics and Geography from Trinity College Dublin, and a Graduate Diploma in Financial Services from University College Dublin. 

She also holds the designation “Licentiate of the Compliance Institute” and completed the Professional Diploma in Compliance in 2014.  Sarah was awarded the Compliance Institute Gold Medal for attaining first place in the programme in that academic year.