Ireland

Mr. Smith has a strong engineering and financial background that includes more than 30 years of experience in Engineering, Corporate Finance, Corporate recovery and M&A. From 1977 to 1984 he worked as an engineer in a variety of consulting and execution roles in Ireland. From 1984 to 1986, while completing an MBA, he worked with The Recovery Group in Boston, a consulting firm specializing in corporate turnarounds. Upon completing his MBA, Mr. Smith returned to Dublin and worked with Banque Nationale de Paris as a Loan Officer, initiating and managing banking relationships with leading Irish companies. In 1991 he started his own corporate finance business advising Irish companies in raising funds both domestically and abroad. Some years later, in 1998, he merged this business with CW Downer of Boston and for the following 18 yeas lead CW Downer’s investment bank in Ireland. Mr. Smith received a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering in 1977 and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering in 1981, both from University College Dublin. In 1986 he received an MBA from Boston College.