Trinity SMF Podcast

Alison Mass is Chairman of the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs. She is a member of the Management Committee and IBD Executive Committee. Previously, she was Global Head of the Financial and Strategic Investors Group in the Investment Banking division. Before that, Alison was Co-Head of FSIG in the Americas. She joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 2001.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Alison worked at Merrill Lynch and held several senior management positions in the securities and investment banking areas and before that, she worked at Drexel Burnham.

Alison is a member of the Board of Advisors of Launch With GS, Goldman Sachs’ $500 million commitment to invest in companies and investment managers with diverse leadership and also serves as a member of the New York University Stern Executive Board.

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Travis Kling is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Ikigai Asset Management, a hedge fund focused on crypto assets. He previously was a Portfolio Manager at Point72 Asset Management where he traded Long/Short Energy Equities. He started his career as an Investment Banker at Simmons & Company and was an Energy Long/Short Equity Analyst at Magnetar Capital.

In 2012, Travis was a member of Magnetar Energy, the team that won “Specialist Hedge Fund of The Year” from Hedge Fund Magazine. Travis has a Bachelor’s in Accounting and a Master’s in Finance from Texas A&M University.

Please note, this podcast was recorded on the 5th February 2021.

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Dr. Martin Naughton is Founder of the Glen Dimplex Group and Chairman of the Glen Dimplex Supervisory Board. He studied Mechanical & Production Engineering in Southampton, England and worked as an Industrial Engineer and Plant Manager for 12 years. In 1973, he founded the private, family-owned Glen Dimplex. Glen Dimplex now has 23 manufacturing plants worldwide.

Martin is also a philanthropist with his wife Carmel and the Naughton family. In 1994, Martin and Carmel founded the private family foundation, “The Naughton Foundation.”

Martin has received honorary degrees from Trinity College, University of Notre Dame, University College Dublin, Queen’s University, Ulster University, Coleraine and Griffith College Dublin. He is a trustee emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.  For seven years, he served as a member of the Irish Council of State and is past Chairman of Intertrade Ireland. Martin is on the Advisory Board of Citi Private Bank for Europe, Africa and in the Middle East. He is a member of the Provost’s Council, is a Knight of the British Empire (K.B.E) and was awarded the French Légion d’Honneur by the French government.

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Alan Dargan is a Founder and Partner of Lonsdale Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm in London. He is also Founder and Chairman of Lansdowne Capital Limited, a corporate finance advisory firm.

Alan began his career in accountancy with Stokes Kennedy Crowley, which later became KPMG in Dublin. Prior to founding Lansdowne Capital and Lonsdale Capital Partners, Alan was a Managing Director in Investment Banking at both Credit Suisse First Boston and Swiss Bank Corporation, now UBS.

With over 40 years of experience in investing and investment banking on Wall Street and the City of London, he also holds several chairmanships and board positions around Europe and in addition is Chairman of the Trinity Student Managed Fund Advisory Board. He is also a trustee and ex-President of Trinity Rugby. He graduated with a BBS degree from Trinity College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.

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Welcome to the Trinity Student Managed Fund Podcast with Will O’Callaghan.

The Trinity Student Managed Fund is Europe’s first student led investment fund, operating a real-life equity portfolio with €250,000 AUM and over 1,000 members.

On this podcast, I speak to some of the most successful leaders in the world of finance, business and technology to get more of an insight into how we students can discover the industry that we wish to pursue a career in.

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