Sean Hawkshaw

The New Ireland Fund, Inc. is a closed-end investment company. The Fund objective is to achieve long-term capital appreciation through investment in equity securities of Irish companies. The company was founded on December 14, 1989 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

KBC Asset Management Ltd. (Ireland) (KBCAM-Ireland) is the Dublin-based subsidiary of KBC Bank & Verzekering Holding NV (Belgium), itself a subsidiary of KBC Groupe SA (Belgium) (XB: KBC). Formerly known as Ulster Bank Investment Managers Ltd., KBCAM-Ireland was formed in 2000 when KBC Bank and Insurance Group NV (Belgium) acquired Ulster Bank Investment Managers Ltd. The firm provides a range of investment products and investment management services to pension funds, charities, corporate and personal investors. With additional offices in London and New York, KBCAM-Ireland offers a variety of equity, bond, property and cash products to the institutional pension market on a pooled basis.

KBI Global Investors Ltd. (KBI) is the Irish asset management subsidiary of Amundi Asset Management SA, ultimately held by Amundi SA (EPA: AMUN) in France. The firm was founded in 1980 and was formerly known as Kleinwort Benson Investors Dublin Ltd. They were renamed KBI Global Investors Ltd. in 2016. Headquartered in Dublin, the firm is committed to growing their capability as a specialist provider of innovative equity investment strategies for institutional investors. KBI is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and integrated ESG practices into their investment process.

Part of SAS Rue la Boétie, Kleinwort Benson Investors International Ltd. provides investment advisory services. The private company is based in Dublin, Ireland. Sean Michael Hawkshaw has been the CEO of the Irish company since 2002.

Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority is a private company headquartered in Naas, Ireland, that engages in supervision of the accounting through quality assurance and disciplinary procedures.