Nick began writing and directing award-winning short films in 2003, culminating in his third short Shoe being Oscar-shortlisted at the 2011 Academy Awards. Nick’s debut feature The Drummer And The Keeper premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh 2017, where it won Best Irish First Feature. The Drummer And The Keeper went on to win 18 awards on the international film circuit, including Best Film at the Cleveland International Film Festival, Best Foreign Film at the Newport Beach International Film Festival and the Silver Award at the Emden-Norderney International Filmfest. It received 5 nominations at the 2018 IFTAs, including Best Screenplay for Nick’s script. Nick’s screenplay was also one of three nominees at the 2018 Irish Writers Guild ZeBBie Awards for Best Feature Film Script. In 2018 Nick set up The Story Works, an innovative independent TV writers room with the aim of generating new television drama with global potential. He was selected for the Screenskills LA Writers Room Placements in November 2019. Bedsitterland, a new feature film written and to be directed by Nick, was selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market in February 2020 and is currently in development.

Nick originally qualified as solicitor, but gave up his legal career the same day to embark on a musical career, first fronting acclaimed Irish band The Fat Lady Sings and subsequently as a Choice Music Prize-nominated solo artist. In June 2022, he cycled from Ireland to the Glastonbury Festival, performing at venues en route and filming the journey for a future documentary about more sustainable approaches to live music.

In addition to his achievements in film and music, Nick is also one of Ireland’s most highly regarded advertising creatives. He has created award-winning campaigns for Aer Lingus, AIB, the Green Party, Walkers Crisps, Bord Gáis Energy, Toyota, the Irish Independent, and most notably Guinness for whom he wrote five major TV spots, including the Clio-winning Tom Crean, and Quarrel which introduced the viewing public to Michael Fassbender. He has directed TV spots and online films for Barry’s Tea, AIB, SSE Airtricity, the Irish Film Archive (featuring Saoirse Ronan), SVP and the Simon Communities.

Jon Ferrara, has been recognized for pioneering innovation in the customer management category.

David Tucker is Chairman of The Board of World Currencies and a former fighter pilot with the RAF. He shares with our listeners his career journey from joining the RAF, learning to fly fighter jets and then moving through the world of financial services. 

Shauna’s story really began when she said NO to terrible leadership

She is an accredited and award-winning transformational coach to founders, leaders and teams of fast-growing remote companies, a speaker, emotional intelligence practitioner and remote team researcher.

Her book Managing Burnout - How to Develop a Happy and Healthy Workforce - The book will Publish on 27th December 2022. Check out the link for further information: Managing Employee Burnout - By Shauna Moran : Target

Our guest today is John Boylan who is CEO of Arcadian Risk Capital in Bermuda. He previously served as Global Chief Casualty Underwriter at Max Capital and Markel. Before that, he served as Chief Casualty Underwriter at XL Europe. John has over 30 years of experience in the insurance sector, with an exemplary track record of building and leading global underwriting teams.

John, hails from county Monaghan in Ireland and is a First class honours graduate of University College, Dublin, with a BA in Business Studies.

Mick is currently Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, after previously leading the firms Advisory Services offering. He has specialised in all forms of insolvency and corporate recovery across numerous industries including: construction, retail, telecoms, banking and aviation amongst others.

Mick shares with James his career journey to-date from leaving school, studying accountancy by night to currently leading a team of over 2,000 people, in 8 offices across Ireland, Isle of Man and  Bermuda.   

Fiona has spent the last 20 years in Bermuda and is originally from New Zealand.

Fiona currently serves as an Independent Director of four publicly listed companies.  Those companies are listed on the NASDAQ, the London Stock Exchange or the Australian Stock Exchange respectively. These companies operate in the infrastructure, technology and telecommunications, customer experience or private equity space.  Fiona is also a Director of the Bermuda Business Development Agency and is focused on how to build on Bermuda’s ambition to be a global technology hub.

Prior to commencing her career as an Independent Director Fiona served as the President and CEO of Southern Cross Cable Network, a submarine fiberoptic cable company connecting New Zealand and Australia to the USA.  She is a Past President of SubOptic, the global organization for submarine fiberoptic cables; the first woman to hold that title.

Fiona was also Chair of the Telecommunications Group for America’s Cup Bermuda Ltd.- delivering key telecommunication requirements for the 2017 America’s Cup for which she was recognized in the Bermuda New Years’ honors list in 2017.

Appointed in January 2020 as Bermuda’s first Privacy Commissioner, Alex White supervises all Bermudian organisations for compliance with the Personal Information Privacy Act (PIPA). His work includes establishing the office and building the foundations for a successful data protection environment on the island.

Gavin is a Director of Earlsfort Group he has been involved in the development of commercial real estate and corporate workplace solutions for more than two decades. He is responsible for operations at East Point, a large, award winning office campus developed by Earlsfort back in the 1990’s.

East Point is home to 50+ corporate occupiers including Oracle and Google. The occupiers employ close to 9,000 people. Pre-Covid they would show up to work at East Point every day.  The pandemic has transformed how people work and these days Gavin spends a good deal of his time speaking with the stakeholders to try to read the tea leaves as to the future of work and how it relates to the built environment, specifically the workplace and office.

Gavin is father of 5 kids ranging in age from under 2 to 18 and is obsessed with health & fitness.  Gavin is hyper curious about human behaviour, personal development and leadership. He writes, speaks and mentors on the topic of real estate investment, innovation and impact with his own podcast Behind The Facade.

Brian Desmond is the EVP Head of Fund Services at Horseshoe Group (“Horseshoe”). He is in charge of the Group’s fund administration operations and responsible for all business development activities related to Fund Services.  Brian was one of the principal founders, a director and COO/CFO of Horseshoe Fund Services Ltd. (“HFSL”, formerly IKONIC), a fund administration company, acquired by Horseshoe in 2016.  Brian has over 25 years of fund administration and audit experience and prior to setting up HFSL, Brian was the Bermuda Country Head at Citigroup Fund Services (Bermuda) Ltd. where he was responsible for overseeing the fund accounting, shareholder services, audit and NAV preparation. for global clients. Brian is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) and acts as director of a number of offshore fund companies. He is also currently President of Teachers Rugby Club (Bermuda). James sits with Brian to discuss his career and successes  to-date.