Lorraine Ryan - Profile - ACCA Lecturer F1

Lorraine has over ten years experience as a finance professional and has been lecturing for the past three years. She holds an MBs in Entrepreneurship and Marketing, a BSc (Management of Credit) and is a part qualified CIMA professional. Lorraine lectures in Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise and Innovation and Management Accounting.

Paul Lydon – Profile – ACCA Lecturer F2

Paul has lecture extensively in Financial and Management Accounting over the past five years in private and state colleges including both ACCA and ICAI students. Prior to 2002, Paul worked as a professional accountant for many years. He is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants and holds an MBS in Marketing and Entrepreneurship.

Cliodna McAleer – Profile - ACCA Lecturer F4

Cliodna holds a Barrister-at-Law Degree from the Honorable Society of Kings Inns, a Bachelor of European Business and Legal Studies from University College Dublin and a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology from Dublin City University. Having previously worked in the business sector and now a practicing Barrister-at-Law Cliodna brings her extensive experience in both law and business to her teaching practice enabling her to deliver an in-depth and high quality Corporate and Business Law programme.

James O’Connor – Profile - ACCA Lecturer P1 AND P3

James has been lecturing, specialising in business related subjects on Masters, Professional and Undergraduate academic programmes for a number of years. He is also responsible for the design and delivery of business related training modules for corporate clients. He has previously lectured with the D.I.T. and V.E.C. He holds an honours M.B.A. from D.C.U. as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Training and Education. Prior to going into full-time training, James has worked for three separate and distinct multinational companies (American, Japanese and Irish) in various management roles. He is a confident lecturer and his style is very supportive to accommodating and enhancing upon a positive student academic experience

Barry Smith – Profile –ACCA Lecturer F7 AND P2

Barry Smith, chartered accountant, has been teaching accounting and finance since 2001. He spent five years teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Dublin City University Business School. In 2006, he left Dublin City University to establish his own business developing online accounting and finance educational content. Barry continues to teach ACCA and ACA accounting courses on a freelance basis and has recently authored a financial accounting textbook for McGraw-Hill publishers. Prior to working at DCU, he spent five years working with PricewaterhouseCoopers in New Zealand, Germany and Zimbabwe. Barry holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from University College Dublin and is currently completing PhD research at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Paula Daly Hayes - Profile – ACCA Lecturer F5

Paula is a qualified accountant and a graduate of DCU where she was awarded a Bachelor of Business. She has worked at a senior level in different sectors, ranging from retail to manufacturing based in Ireland, the UK and Germany. Paula has experience in the public sector having acted as a financial adviser in relation to EU funding. She is now using the practical experiences gained in industry to deliver accountancy modules on the Management Accounting module on IATI.

Keith Whitford - Profile - ACCA Lecturer F6

Keith is a qualified accountant and tax consultant with over twelve years of experience in private practice, with the last three being as a sole-practitioner (under the name KPW & Co). Keith has been lecturing part time professional accounting courses (ACCA and IATI) for 5 out of the last 7 years

Isolde Hampson – IATI Taxation 1 and II Lecturer

Isolde is an Assistant Principal with the Revenue Commissioners. She heads up the business incentives area dealing with Film Productions and Research & Development. Nine of her thirty years in Revenue were spent as a Revenue Auditor and six as a lecturer in Revenue’s Training Branch. She taught Taxation and Accountancy in Revenue’s Diploma in Applied Taxation, which is accdarkblueited by University of Limerick. Isolde holds a First Class BBS Honours Degree in Financial and Management Accounting. She has been teaching Taxation 1 and Taxation 2 on the IATI programme since 2002. She joined IBaT in 2006.

Martin Quinn – IATI Financial Accounting 1 and II Lecturer

A Charted Management Accountant since 1994, Martin has a BA(Hons) in Business Studies and an MSc in Management and Applications of IT in Accounting. Martin has worked in manufacturing firms in Ireland for 11 years prior to starting an academic career. Martin spent several years with a small indigenous manufacturing firm and 8 years in a global paper company. He has acquidarkblue intimate knowledge of the paper and packaging industry in both finance and information technology fields. Martin is currently undertaking a PhD research degree.

Olivia Edge – IATI Business & Finance Lecturer

Olivia has over 12 years account management experience in leading multi-national companies in the digital electronics and software industries. Over this time she has amassed experience in strategic business development and deployment, sales operations, price negotiations, customer relationship management and marketing management. She holds a Bachelor in Business Studies and a Masters by Research in Business Studies. She lectures a variety of business subjects including International Marketing, Strategic Management, Project Management and Organisational Behaviour.

Adrienne Gallagher – IATI Business & Finance Lecturer

Adrienne is a qualifiedaccountant with 15 years experience in the Financial Services sector both in Ireland and in a Pan European context. Having worked for companies such as Bank of Ireland, Standard Life and Royal Bank of Scotland, she gained extensive experience in finance, IT Management and HR. She lectures in Financial Accounting, Business Maths and Quantitative Methods

Alan Osborne – ACCA

"The lectures were very good and had an excellent approach to the course subjects.We had access to plenty of notes and things were simplified as much as possible. The ACCA course gives me a qualification that can be brought anywhere and will widen my career oppertunities. It has helped me in my current position and studying for an accountancy qualification has made me more valuable to my own company".

Bernie Flynn – ATI - Accounting Technician Ireland

"The staff at IBAT college are friendly and very helpful, Isolde Hampson is our lecturer and she is the best, she knows all there is to know about ATI and brings it across in her notes and lectures in class."