Sean McLaughlin is a Chartered Accountant with excellent financial and operational management skills. He has over 15 years of proven success gained in senior positions with international investment banking institutions. He qualified with Deloitte, and worked as a Senior Manager specialising in the auditing of complex banking and securities firms. He spent ten years at Credit Lyonnais Securities as finance director, where he also had responsibility for the settlements and middle office departments. He then worked for five years at Robert W Baird Limited, the UK subsidiary of the US investment bank, as chief operating officer with responsibility for all operational functions. The last two years have been with an internet start-up organisation dealing with small institutions and investors.